Presently, Lars Erik Holmqvist occupies the position of Chairman of Fastihets AB Skutviken and Chairman at Biovica International AB. Mr. Holmqvist is also on the board of 6 other companies.

He previously was SVP, President-Diagnostics & Genomics Group at Agilent Technologies, Inc. President & Chief Executive Officer at Dako Denmark An and President & Chief Executive Officer for Cytologix Corp. (both are subsidiaries of Agilent Technologies, Inc.), Vice President for Pharmacia Upjohn, Executive Member at Applera Corp., Vice President-Vascular & Cardiac Surgery at Medtronic Europe SARL and Vice President of Applied Biosystems Ltd.

He received an undergraduate degree from Stockholm School of Economics and an MBA from INSEAD.