Christian Uhrich joined M Ventures in August 2019 as Head of Strategy, and is currently a Principal in the Biotechnology team. Previously, he worked at Merck KGaA as a Senior Consultant in Merck’s Inhouse Consulting practice where he focused on impactful strategy related projects across all three business sectors of the Merck Group (Healthcare, Life Science, Electronics). Before joining Merck, Christian has spent over ten years in the external consulting space, previously working for Accenture in its Strategy practice where he successfully consulted key Pharma and Biotech industry players on strategic challenges and management decisions in the areas of business and digital strategy, R&D, marketing & sales, organizational development, and post-merger integration & carve-outs. Prior to joining Accenture, Christian worked for Seeburger Inc., a leading global middleware integration company, where, as a consultant, he built a rich understanding of digital transformation and business process-related topics, such as process optimization and automation. Christian holds an MBA from Mannheim Business School, Germany and a Diploma in Computer Science and Business Administration (Business Informatics) from Cooperative State University Karlsruhe, Germany. Christian is based in Darmstadt.