Over the last 20 years Katja Aschermann held various executive positions in the biological life science industry. During this time, she worked as Head of Quality Assurance, Head of Business Development, Director of Quality Control, Founder and Chief Operating Officer, specializing in combining a wide spectrum of business perspectives.

Selected tasks of her professional career were transforming academical spin offs to GMP certified life science SMEs (Protagen AG; RheinCell GmbH now part of Catalent), merging of business units after acquisition (Wacker Biotech) and obtaining GMP manufacturing authorization for allogenic iPSC production in Germany.

In January 2022 Katja joined TETEC-AG as Vice President Quality.