Lars Erik Holmqvist occupies the position of Chairman of Biovica International AB and Chairman for Fastihets AB Skutviken.

He is also on the board of 6 other companies.

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

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