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Ralph Fraundorfer

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Chief Financial Officer at AMSilk GmbH | Biotech Materials
📍 Switzerland

Ralph Fraundorfer is the Chief Financial Officer at AMSilk, bringing over 20 years of experience in finance from roles at Shell, Syngenta, and Actelion Pharmaceuticals. He specializes in scaling up biotech companies, having previously grown Tropic Biosciences from 40 to over 150 employees while securing multiple financing rounds. Colleagues have described him as impressive, timely, and accurate.

He is passionate about driving the commercialization of innovative, biofabricated materials based on spider silk proteins. His focus is on establishing AMSilk as a global leader in advanced materials, enabling a wide range of applications across various industries. He graduated with a degree in business administration from the University of Passau and Kiel University.

He has experience leading collaborations with major luxury brands, such as Kering, to integrate sustainable biotech materials into their products.

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Experience
10 Years
Current Role
Chief Financial Officer
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Switzerland
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Biotech Commercialization
He is passionate about positioning AMSilk as a global supplier and bringing its advanced, silk-based biomaterials to the next level of commercialization.
Scale-up Financing
As CFO for start-ups and scale-ups, he has a proven track record of building finance functions from scratch and closing successful financing rounds to enable rapid growth.
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Career

Work history

4-2024
Chief Financial Officer
AMSilk GmbH | Biotech Materials
10-2019 - 9-2023
Chief Financial Officer
Tropic Biosciences
8-2016 - 9-2019
Interim Chief Financial Officer / Head of Finance, Supply Chain & Operations
IKMT Consulting AG
9-2015 - 7-2016
Senior Consultant
Freelance
12-2014 - 8-2015
Deputy Group Financial Controller / Regional CFO Middle East & Asia Pacific
Puma Energy
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Education
1992 - 1996
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Kiel University
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