Patrick Bach will, in addition to Group Finance, be responsible for Strategy and Digital at Bactiguard. Bactiguard's current CFO, Carin Jakobson, assumes a role as Finance Director and leaves the Executive Management team. She will report to CFO Patrick Bach.

"As Bactiguard has entered the largest strategic shift in its history, to transform into a knowledge-driven partnership company, we are adding resources to match both the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. In Patrick, we get a combination of finance and vast experience from the medtech industry as well as strategic, growth and transformation competence. Patrick shares our values and will be a great contributor to the entire firm," says CEO Thomas von Koch.

"I am really looking forwad to joining Bactiguard, we are at a critical point where our infection prevention technology can make a huge impact to global healthcare issues, not the least antimicrobial resistance. The new license focused strategy is set to unleash Bactiguard's full potential and I can't wait to get to know the team and the business and chip in with full force to capture the exiciting opportunities that we have ahead of us," comments Patrick Bach, Bactiguard's new CFO.

Patrick Bach was born in 1983 and holds a BSc in Economics and Business Administration and MSc in Finance and Strategic Management, both from Copenhagen Business School. Before Atos Medical, he worked with Coloplast Wound Care as Head of Strategy.