Mats Johnson, CEO
Since July 2004 Mats Johnson has been the CEO of SweTree Technologies. He has more than 20 years of global commercial experience in the fields of biotech supply and drug discovery, from companies such as Pharmacia Biotech, Amersham Biosciences and KaroBio. He has held a variety of positions, including Director of Molecular Biology Systems and Vice President of Proteomics at Amersham Pharmacia Biotech and he was Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at KaroBio.

Prof. Petter Gustafsson, VP Intellectual Property
Petter Gustafsson has been professor in Plant Molecular Biology for more than 15 years and has also been Dean of the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Umeå University for three years. His research area is photosynthetic genes and their regulation. Prof. Gustafsson has been a board member of the Swedish Research Council for Engineering Sciences and he was a co-founder of the pharmaceutical start-up company Symbicom AB, acquired in 1995 by AstraZeneca. He is a member of the advisory board (forskningsberedningen) of the Swedish government on science issues.

Dr. Sven-Erik Sköld, VP R&D
Sven-Erik Sköld has a PhD in molecular biology from the Department of Molecular Biology, Biomedical Centre, Uppsala University. He joined Pharmacia Biotech in 1982, and continued his career with Amersham Biosciences and GE Healthcare. With 25 years of experience in global project and line management, Sven-Erik has held positions including Project Manager, Department Director R&D and Director Science & Technology. He joined SweTree Technologies in 2005.

Prof. Torgny Näsholm, CSO
Torgny Näsholm is Professor in Ecology and Nutrition at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and UPSC (Umeå Plant Science Centre). UPSC is a centre of excellence including some 150 scientists working with experimental plant biology. Torgny has a long track record in plant ecology and nutrition and is the inventor of both the arginine fertilizer technology as well as the D-amino acid marker technology.