Maik is one of the founding Managing Directors of Adivo Associates. Maik started his career as an Immunologist and Geneticist at UCSF before entering the Biotech start up world via three California-based companies that were later divested. He continues to serve on the board of directors for various BioPharma companies, allowing him to follow a dual path as an entrepreneur and strategy consultant; roles that constantly expose him to new technologies and the impact they might have on transforming standards of care. Prior to founding Adivo, Maik was responsible for Frost & Sullivan’s Global Healthcare and Life Science Consulting Practice where he managed global consulting engagements with top 500 pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, IVD/MDx and Healthcare IT companies.

Maik’s entrepreneurial approach and his ability to analyze both business and scientific issues allow him to converse with a broad range of audiences on many levels which is highly valued by his peers. Maik holds a magna cum laude Ph.D. in Immunogenetics in collaboration with the University of California, San Francisco and the Ludwig-Maximillians University in Munich, and a summa cum laude Masters in Molecular Biology from the University of Hannover, Germany. He is an alumni of the prestigious Boehringer Ingelheim Fond.