Dr. Vreeke has had a successful career translating innovation from the bench into commercial products. He is a coinventor on over 100 US patents. These patents were realized in products with combined revenues exceeding $20B USD, were used for over 20B diagnostic measurements and have impacted millions of patient lives.
Dr. Vreeke is currently the President of the Chemical Angel Network, VP of R&D at myBiometry and Managing Member of TransAtlantic Science LLC. The Chemical Angel Network invests in early-stage hard science companies that converge with the chemical sector in the materials, measurement and manufacturing space. myBiometry provides an asthma management solution that combines a novel biosensor and patient support tools. TransAtlantic Science is a boutique technology consulting organization.
Previously, Dr. Vreeke held positions from bench scientist to Senior VP of R&D. As Director of Sensor Technology at West Pharma, he created the operational roadmap to realize West’s ambitions to participate in the hospital to home continuum. At Edwards Lifescience he served as the Director of Product Stewardship, founded the polymer center of excellence and transferred a hospital CGM production line from Dexcom to Edwards. As Senior Vice President of R&D for Rational Biotechnology he identified a personalized medicine opportunity through the development of a combined IVD and drug therapy product. As the Senior VP of R&D at Pepex Biomedical he reestablished Pepex’s ability to develop, manufacture and market disposable miniaturized electrochemical biosensors.
Early in his career, Dr. Vreeke held various research positions at TheraSense where he contributed to the successful transfer of wired enzyme glucose sensor technology from the University of Texas. The Abbott Freestyle and Libre product lines originated at TheraSense.
Dr. Vreeke graduated from Calvin College with a BS in Chemistry and went on to receive a PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin. He was formerly a visiting professor in the chemical engineering department at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain). He has sat on multiple academic, industry, and corporate boards. Academic honors include a Dow Scholarship, Welch Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Fellow and the accreditation by the Spanish government to the rank of full professor.