Lars Erik Holmqvist is Chairman at Fastihets AB Skutviken and Chairman for Biovica International AB. Mr. Holmqvist is also on the board of 6 other companies.

In the past Mr. Holmqvist was SVP, President-Diagnostics & Genomics Group at Agilent Technologies, Inc. President & Chief Executive Officer for Dako Denmark An and President & Chief Executive Officer at Cytologix Corp. (both are subsidiaries of Agilent Technologies, Inc.), Vice President at Pharmacia Upjohn, Executive Member at Applera Corp., Vice President-Vascular & Cardiac Surgery at Medtronic Europe SARL and Vice President of Applied Biosystems Ltd.

Mr. Holmqvist received an undergraduate degree from Stockholm School of Economics and an MBA from INSEAD.