OUR TEAM

Meet the experts behind our company

Executive Board

Dr. Hendrik Balonier

Dr. Hendrik Balonier is the Managing Director of PPV AG.

 

He possesses comprehensive international experience in the field of executive search and has led international teams of management and HR consultants. With his integrated project teams, he has guided his clients’ HR organizations in the direction of effective leadership and modern business partner role concepts.

 

After completing his studies in mathematics, linguistics, and philosophy with his doctorate dissertation, he spent three years of post-doc work on a range of different research assignments.

 

The first steps of his professional career saw him move from agency to executive consulting work. He developed a medium-sized executive consulting firm with considerable international presence and was responsible for the successful foundation of affiliate firms in Germany and abroad.

 

He was appointed to the position of a Senior Partner at Heidrick & Struggles, where he was in charge of the global life science practice and developed a number of large-scale key accounts.

 

At Kienbaum, he was the Managing Director in charge of the firm’s entire Executive Search operations.


Hendrik Balonier has over three decades of experience in executive search and has left his mark in the supervisory and executive boards and the leadership and specialist teams of numerous companies, with a particular focus on the chemical / pharmaceutical industry.

Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Dr. Karl Skriner

Dr. Karl Skriner holds a Ph.D. in genetics. He has worked for more than 25 years in a research-intensive, academic and commercial field of drug development and IVD (in vitro diagnostics). 


Karl has been a senior scientist in the international environment of Charité in Berlin and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm for many years. He is responsible for the scientific direction of sizeable research groups. Additionally, he acts as co-founder of a platform technology company, clairvoyant GmbH. As a company in the field of personalized medicine and cancer therapy, projects are underway with pharmaceutical and clinical partners. 


From 2012 to 2015 he was also CSO and founder of an innovative venture capital funded biotech spin-off of Max Planck Society. In this context, Karl holds a couple of patents of new approaches in the healthcare sector. Furthermore, Dr. Skriner is a medical laboratory auditor in the field of immunology and has been responsible for controlling medical laboratories and their tests since 2016.


He serves PPV AG as Head of the Supervisory Board since March´23.

Senior Executive Consultants

  • Prof. Dr. med. Josef Aldenhoff

    Prof. Dr. med. Aldenhoff holds the chair of psychiatry at the University of Kiel. He is the Director of the Psychiatric and Psychotherapeutic Clinic at the Zentrum für Integrative Psychiatrie gGmbH and Managing Director of ZIP gGmbH. 


    At PPV AG, he contributes his unique experience in the field of organizational development and structural design processes for hospitals.

  • Dr. Henryk Wroblewski

    As Principal Executive Consultant, Dr. Wroblewski is in charge of PPV’s pharmacovigilance business. He has decades of experience in a series of executive positions in pharmaceutical safety at Bayer, where he was able to contribute his unique combination of expertise as a qualified attorney and anaesthesiologist.