Dr. Rainer Metzger

ABOUT US

Dr. Metzger is a global business executive and operations leader with almost three decades of executive experience within the life science and healthcare sector with global pharmaceutical and diagnostics companies including ROCHE, DANAHER and QIAGEN.
During his close-to ten-year career with Roche, Dr. Metzger held several VP roles leading highly successful global business development and clinical biomarker programs within oncology, corporate, and molecular diagnostics.
As Roche’s VP, Global Head Business and Biomarker Operations, Biosample and Repository Management, his span of influence included the development of the Pharma Biomarker Personalized Healthcare initiative and the implementation and delivery of a highly-valuable technology/product portfolio with several hundred individual biomarker programs.
As VP, Head of Global Business Development and Strategic Marketing Oncology, he led a multifunctional BD and marketing team developing and executing Roche’s global brand strategy for oncology.
During his multi-year, executive tenure with worldwide provider of molecular sample and assay technologies QIAGEN, as global department head within diagnostics and pharmaceuticals, Dr. Metzger led business development and drove partnership programs for various disease areas, contributing 20-30% of annual growth through the initiation and execution of master collaboration agreements with the majority of the top 50 global pharma companies.