Florian Wegener
Florian Wegener is the co-founder and CEO of ZAGENO, a life science marketplace designed to simplify providing research scientists with the tools they need to improve human health. Before co-founding ZAGENO, Florian was a practicing cardiologist at the Frankfurt University Hospital. After deciding to pivot his career from the operating room to the business world, Florian joined the Boston Consulting Group in 2007. He worked closely on international projects in the biopharmaceutical space, gaining exposure to the value chain for the life sciences marketplace. In 2013, Florian became the VP and Global Head of eCommerce for QIAGEN GmbH. At QIAGEN, Florian led a digital transformation in eCommerce strategy. Florian holds a medical degree from the Universities of Freiburg, Frankfurt, Toronto, and New York University and an MBA from the IE Business School in Madrid, Spain. In 2018, Florian relocated his family from Munich to the life science hub of Boston-Cambridge, Massachusetts, to accelerate the growth of ZAGENO’s U.S. operations.