My name is Clemens Fischer. I founded Futrue more than ten years ago together with Madlena Hohlefelder, a healthcare incubator which now includes more than 20 pharmaceutical companies around the world. Before that I was with Novartis, an international pharmaceutical group and Madlena was with BCG, a leading consultancy. During my time with Novartis, I learned how many unused opportunities in the pharmaceutical and healthcare field exist. Reasons why some very significant opportunities are not utilised include the fact that big groups rarely reward the taking of risks, and it's very unlikely that a good idea will survive the many committees, which are often politically motivated. An even more common reason, though, is that many opportunities are not even recognised as being opportunities. This often leads to many patients not getting (the best) treatment, and major opportunities not being utilised.

We founded Futrue on the basis of this realisation.

Our vision is to become the "Tesla of the pharmaceutical industry", in other words to surprise Big Pharma with what is possible if you bring together bravery, talent and entrepreneurship to make the numerous as yet unused opportunities a reality.

We make use of precisely those opportunities that big pharma either doesn't see or has no interest in. We focus solely on opportunities in niche markets with exponential growth. If we believe in an opportunity, we found a company and put in high quality managers.

And off we go!

Each company is self-sufficient, and Futrue only manages the areas accounting, legal and IT. To ensure that our ideas are implemented as quickly as possible and time is not wasted with politics and unnecessary discussions, we start all of our companies without any external investors.

Several years ago, an article about a cannabis company that appeared in "Manager Magazin" encouraged us to look at that market more closely. We found that the market for leisure cannabis did not meet our requirements profile, among other things because of the unfavourable competitive environment and the minimal levels of differentiation. What our studies did show, however, was that some of the active substances contained within cannabis have a significant effect on the sensation of pain. Our market analyses also showed, that there was only one company in the whole world with the expertise to cultivate medical cannabis plants, manufacture a herbal medicine from them and develop these to authorised medicinal products. However, this company works in a completely different area on the treatment of epilepsy, and was therefore not an obstacle.

As a result, a few years ago we founded the biopharmaceutical company Vertanical, built the most modern GMP greenhouse in the world for cannabis in Denmark in record time, built from scratch a highly modern, GMP-certified production facility for manufacturing medicinal products containing cannabis, and have carried out more than 10 preclinical and clinical studies to date. Our lead product, Ver-01, is now in the final stage of clinical trials (phase III). We are confident, that we will receive authorisation for the first innovation in pain relief therapy in more than 30 years in the next 24 months, and that we will be able to launch our unique medicinal product worldwide. Our aim is to replace opioids, which have many side effects, and to give the more than 100 million chronic pain patients around the world a new life with our potential blockbuster, Ver-01.

Our operational companies are currently making profits before taxation and expenses on R&D of around 50 million euros a year, and this trend is very much on the rise. In addition to this, we have the revenue from selling companies that makes a significant contribution to our cash pool. We currently have an investment volume in the high hundreds of millions. This enables us to realise even large and cost-intensive opportunities.

We are looking for people who really want to achieve and change something with their lives, along with a team of highly motivated and intelligent colleagues. A high level of commitment and very good analytical skills are other attributes that are important to us.

We currently have more than 130 vacancies at our Gräfelfing location alone.

Among other vacancies, we are looking for a Director of Sales and Performance Marketing for SYNformulas. SYNformulas is a leading global probiotics company focusing on researching intelligent bacteria to treat patients with allergies and gastrointestinal diseases. As Director of Sales and Performance Marketing, you will lead a team of around 50 employees and be responsible for a gross annual marketing budget of around 50 million euros. You will work with your team to create international online campaigns. You will also be responsible for taking our sales teams in Austria and Germany to new highs. You will work in Gräfelfing near Munich. The goal is for you to be part of the management team within 12-24 months of joining the company.

We are also looking for a Director of Clinical Operations for Vertanical. Vertanical specialises in the development of cannabis-based medicinal products. The lead product, Ver-01, is currently in the final stage of clinical trials (phase III), and we are confident that we will be able to launch the first innovation in the painkiller market for more than 30 years in the next two years. As the Director of Clinical Operations, you will lead a team that currently consists of around 30 people (target 2025: 100 employees), and you will coordinate the operational implementation of our studies around the world, so we can bring our medicinal products to the market faster than any other pharmaceutical company. Knowledge of pharmaceuticals is NOT necessary, but we do require the ability to think outside the box, develop processes and implement them rigorously. You should also be able to keep many balls in the air at the same time. You will work in Gräfelfing near Munich.

Definitely not. The vast majority of our employees had no experience of the pharmaceutical industry before they joined us. We are looking for colleagues who are ambitious in their work and learn quickly.

The rest comes on its own!

Yes, we offer flexible working. Our employees can work from home two days a week. We very much believe, though, that ideas and problems should be discussed face-to-face and on-site and that it is not optimal for teams to be managed by directors or managers who are not on-site with their teams. If you have ambitions of taking on a leadership role with us, you should be willing to spend most of your time in our offices. Of course you can still organise your working hours in a flexible way.

We know that time is the most important resource for every applicant. We have therefore worked for years to develop a process that allows us to evaluate whether there is a good fit between you and us using as few questions as possible, particularly at the start of the process.

We have a very diverse team. We look for compelling CVs, drive and strong analytical skills in our managers and board members.

We aren't interested in whether someone has previously gained pharmaceutical experience.

Take a look for yourself, though, here are a couple of CVs from our leadership team: