Leadership

José Ignacio (Nacho) Abia Buenache has been serving as Grifols Chief Executive Officer since April 2024 and as board member since February of the same year. Prior to joining the company, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Olympus Corporation of the Americas for more than a decade, based in Pennsylvania. Concurrently, he held senior executive roles at Olympus Corporation, including Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Strategy Officer (CSO).

He brings more than two decades of experience in the Medical Technology and Life Sciences industries, having spent equal time in both the United States and Europe. At Olympus he also dedicated a significant amount of time to developing the business in the Asia-Pacific region. Before his tenure at Olympus, Mr. Abia held various leadership positions in the IT and Consumer Electronics industries, working with technology companies such as Sony and Techdata.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications and Electronics Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona, an MBA from EAE Business School and has completed the Senior Management Program at IESE Business School.

Mr. Abia also serves on the Board of Directors of the Spain-U.S. Chamber of Commerce and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Lehigh Valley Health Network. He previously served on the Board of Directors of Evident Corporation, a company specializing in life sciences and industrial solutions.

Karoly Nikolich is Strategic Innovation Advisor to Grifols and co-founder of Alkahest. During the 1980s, he led Genentech’s entry into neuroscience and led and participated in the development of numerous protein therapeutics. He was Vice President of Research at Lynx Therapeutics, co-founder of AGY Therapeutics, Amnestix, Neurofluidics, Chase Pharmaceuticals, Circuit Therapeutics, and Alkahest. He has served as venture partner with Pivotal BioVentures, and has been on the boards and scientific advisory boards at a number of neurotherapeutics and biotech companies, as well. Dr. Nikolich is a graduate of Eotvos University in Budapest and worked as postdoctoral fellow at Tulane University and UCSF before joining Genentech. He has been Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford University Medical School.

David Ian Bell is the Chief Innovation Officer for Grifols S.A. Additionally, he is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Grifols Innovation and New Technology Limited (GIANT). He also serves as General Counsel with responsibility for, among other things, mergers and acquisitions and new business development. Mr. Bell serves on Grifols Corporate, Strategy, Bioscience, Diagnostic and Hospital Management/Executive Committees and is on the Board of Directors of numerous Grifols’ portfolio companies. Mr. Bell is currently the Chairman of the Plasma Protein Therapeutics Association. Prior to joining Grifols in 2003, Mr. Bell served as General Counsel and Vice President of Alpha Therapeutic Corporation following more than 20 years as a corporate lawyer specializing in healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology regulation and liability. Mr. Bell attended the University of California, Irvine focusing on Psychobiology (Neuroscience), Southwestern University School of Law and a postgraduate program at Harvard Law School.

Tony Wyss-Coray, D. H. Chen Distinguished Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University, is the Co-Director of the Stanford Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, and Senior Research Career Scientist at the Palo Alto VA. His lab studies brain aging and neurodegeneration with a focus on age-related cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease. The Wyss-Coray research team discovered that circulatory blood factors can modulate brain structure and function and factors from young organisms can rejuvenate old brains. These findings were voted 2^nd place Breakthrough of the Year in 2014 by Science Magazine and presented in talks at Global TED, the World Economic Forum, and Google Zeitgeist. Wyss-Coray is the recipient of an NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, a Zenith Award from the Alzheimer’s Association, a NOMIS Foundation Award, an inventor on multiple patents, and was selected by TIME Magazine to “The Health Care 50” as one of the most influential people transforming healthcare in 2018.

Dr. Jörg Schüttrumpf is the Chief Scientific Innovation Officer of Grifols, where since late 2023 he has strengthened the company’s work to enhance patient care with innovative plasma medicines and other biopharmaceuticals. Until September 2024, he was also Chief Scientific Officer at Biotest AG and a member of its Board of Management. Before joining Biotest AG in 2012, Dr. Schüttrumpf worked at different academic and non-government organizations in Germany and the U.S. This includes the German Red Cross Blood Donor Service, the Goethe University Frankfurt, the University Hospital of Essen, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and the University of Pennsylvania.  Dr. Schüttrumpf is a trained physician-scientist specialized in Transfusion Medicine and Hemostaseology with degrees from Goethe University Frankfurt and Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg. He has an MBA from IMD Business School, Lausanne. 

Jaume Oliva is the Vice President of Portfolio Management at Grifols, with an emphasis on strategic growth and innovation. He focuses on optimizing the product pipeline to ensure Grifols delivers impactful solutions to the market. He has over 15 years of experience across various industries, including pharmaceutical, chemical, and automotive. Mr. Oliva’s expertise includes optimizing R&D pipelines, driving cross-functional collaboration, and delivering sustainable value. In previous roles, he successfully led change management initiatives and company turnarounds, enhancing operational efficiency and project outcomes. Notably, he streamlined portfolio operations, significantly reducing project timelines and resource utilization. Mr. Oliva holds an Executive Education in General Management from IESE Business School, a Master’s degree in Financial Management from EADA Business School, and a Business Administration degree from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.