Leadership

Board of Directors

The Evodia Board of Directors includes exceptional industry leaders from Carlsberg, IFF, and Symrise. With expertise that includes the former chairman of Carlsberg and the former CEO of IFF, our board brings vast experience in biotechnology, sustainable innovation, and strategic growth. Their guidance and vision help shape Evodia’s mission to pioneer sustainable flavor solutions. With their combined experience, our board plays an essential role in driving Evodia’s success and supporting our purpose to create impactful, eco-friendly flavors.

Jarne Elleholm

Chairman & Co-founder

Partner Collatoral Good

Sotirios Kampranis

Board Member and Co-founder

Professor of Biochemical Engineering, University of Copenhagen

Flemming Besenbacher

Board Member

Former chairman of Carlsberg Group and the Carlsberg Foundation

Andreas Fibig

Board Member

Former Chairman & CEO of International Flavors & Fragrances

Anne Cabotin

Board Member

Senior Vice President Consumer Fragrance at Business at Symrise AG

Lauri Reuter

Board Member

Founder & Partner of Nordic Foodtech VC

Johan Bitsch Nielsen

Board Member

Investment Manager at EIFO

Harold Schmitz

Board Member

Founding Partner at The March Group

Christian Brix Tillegreen

Board Observer

Director of Planetary Health Bioinnovation Institute

Operational Team

Ambitious, purpose driven and creative

Our team at Evodia combines passion, expertise, and dedication to pioneer sustainable flavor solutions. Representing over 15 nationalities, we are united by our commitment to creating impactful, environmentally friendly flavors and driving a more sustainable future.

We are on a mission: to create a game-changing biotech sustainable aroma house for the F&B industry. With our unique bioscience technology and focus on sustainable aroma solutions, we recreate nature’s aromatic molecules using precision fermentation, enriching any product with natural aromas and a great taste.


Sustainability is important to us, and we’re bound together by our ambition to pioneer the future of sustainable flavor ingredients through bioscience innovation; creating great tastes and aromas by mirroring nature’s flavors - without compromising its precious resources.

With team members from 15 countries, we embrace all types of people and personalities. We can get seriously nerdy when it comes to our science, but our common love for brewing–and everything that entails–keeps the atmosphere creative, productive and fun.

Operational Team

Camilla Kloss Fenneberg

CEO

Expertise: Global marketing, ComEx, Product launches, go-to-market strategy
Formerly: Go2Green Energy, Coloplast
Role: Strategy, building the team, investors, finance and forecasting, sales, marketing, regulatory and partnerships

Simon Dusséaux

CSO & Co-founder

Expertise: Metabolic engineering, fermentation, analytical chemistry
Formerly: CARBIOS (France)
Role: Lead of fermentation and downstream processing, strain engineering and aroma portfolio

Victor Forman

CTO & Co-founder

Expertise: Metabolic engineering, fermentation, brewing
Formerly: Tycho-bio, EVOLVA (DK), AMYRIS (USA)
Role: Lead of strain development, aroma portfolio and automation

Sotirios Kampranis

Chief of R&D and Co-founder

Expertise: Synthetic biology, scientific project management
Role: Platform development, soft funding and IP

Jarne Elleholm

Chairman & Co-founder

Expertise: Business development, fundraising and management
Role: Executive chairman, business and commercial development

Sten Larsen

CFO

Expertise: International CFO/COO, Management, growing and scale-up of SME’s, digitalization, fundraising and M&A
Role: All aspects within Finance, including planning forecasting and cash management and supply chain management.

Nicolás Drocchi

Head of Production

Expertise: Brewing, recipe development, microbiology & process engineering
Role: Pilot plant construction

Anastasia Sapunenko

Global Commercial Manager

Expertise: Business development, Consumer goods, Key account & distributor management
Role: Marketing management, Sales management, New business

Axelle Frachon

Flavorist

Expertise: Creation and duplication of flavors and taste formulas for the beverage industry
Role: New aromas and flavor exploration, portfolio expansion

Dave Shapiro

Product Developer

Expertise: Brewing science, process engineering, sensory analysis
Role: Packaging process design, technical sales, internal sensory

Julie Kamper

Sales & Marketing Assistant

Expertise: Marketing strategy, B2C & B2B communication, business development
Role: Sales & Marketing Assistant

Oskar Olofsson

Research Scientist

Expertise: Molecular biology, synthetic biology, lean manufacturing
Formerly: Novo Nordisk
Role: Strains engineering and exploration

Susanne Andresen

Quality & Regulatory Manager

Expertise: QA/QC, Management, regulatory strategies and certifications. Experience from Food, Medtech & Biotech
Role: Quality & Regulatory Manager, QA/QC

Paulina Guniak

QC/QA Chemist

Expertise: ​6 years of expertise in QC from pharma industry
Role: QC/QA, physicochemical analysis

Balachandar G

Fermentation Product Engineer

Expertise: Fermentation, Upstream process development and Scale-up
Role: Upstream fermentation, Pilot and production plant operations and Scale-up

Jørn Krogh

Downstream Process Engineer

Expertise: +25 years of experience within process engineering and optimization
Role: Process and production development and optimization

Gautam Degweker

Fermentation Engineer

Expertise: Upstream process development for biofuels and biologics across laboratories, pilot, and GMP manufacturing scales
Role: Process development and scale-up of yeast-based fermentation processes

Kasper Jeppesen

Production & R&D Assistant

Antoine Robin

Production Operator

Expertise: Brewing, Cellaring and beverage design
Role: Upstream, downstream and packaging operation

Riccardo Tarantino

Downstream Process Engineer

Expertise: Enzymatic synthesis, Bioreactors design and commissioning
Role: Product purification to meet quality and sensory requirements, process development

Victoria Siafaka

Downstream Process Assistant

Ida Garbers

Laboratory Assistant

Lauren Barnett

Marketing Assistant

Maria Grousouzakou

Product Development Student Assistant

Sebastián Tamayo Rojas

Research Scientist

Culture

Our unique approach

As we’ve grown, we’ve become less start-up and more scaleup in our attitude and culture–but the original passion and spirit born in the labs at Copenhagen University is still with us. We value fun as we work towards building a great company that we all like being part of: it’s all about creating an inspiring team who bring out the best in each other, while making the most of our diverse personalities and skills. Having a space where we can be candid and honest is important to us, and failing fast to quickly move on is a way of life we love.

Join Evodia

Looking to become our next colleague?

The Evodia team is growing, and we’re always looking for motivated and qualified people here in our commercial, scientific and operational divisions. Reach out to our team with an application or any questions you might have. Just fill out the form here.