Selexis names Yemi Onakunle as vp of strategic and market development

Former Diosynth and Lonza executive joins Swiss life science company

Geneva, Switzerland-based Selexis has hired Yemi Onakunle as vice president of strategic and market development. He will be responsible for expanding Selexis' presence in the drug discovery, next generation biologics and difficult-to-express protein markets.

Onakunle has more than 15 years' experience in drug manufacturing and cell line development. Prior to joining Selexis, he was director of commercial development at Diosynth RTP and associate director of business development at Lonza Custom Manufacturing.

More recently, Onakunle was head of sales and marketing at Bachem Americas, a contract manufacturing organisation focusing on peptides and complex organic molecules.

Onakunle is a member of the board of directors of VLP Biotech, a vaccine development company based in San Diego, CA and has been a business advisor to several biopharmaceutical and drug delivery companies.

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