Real Mentorship Starts with Company Culture, not formal programs. And it is up to you - the CEO - to create and model a culture of mentorship.

Peer M. Schatz is an entrepreneur and executive with over 30 years of experience in the life sciences. Throughout his career he has placed great emphasis on mentorship to enhance his own skills, networks and ultimate career success but also to support younger high-potential individuals and learn in equal measure from them.

Peer Schatz was the Chief Executive Officer of QIAGEN N.V. QIAGEN’s sample-to-insight solutions provide valuable insights on molecular information to customers in molecular diagnostics, applied testing, academia and the pharmaceutical industry. He joined QIAGEN in 1993, when the company had under 30 employees and revenues of approximately $2 million. Under his leadership, QIAGEN grew to employ more than 5,200 people in over 35 locations around the world and to record annual revenues of over US$ 1.6 billion – with strong leadership positions in molecular diagnostics/precision medicine, research tools and advanced bioinformatics. 

Peer led more than 40 acquisitions for QIAGEN as well as QIAGEN’s listings on NASDAQ (in 1996, making QIAGEN the first German company to do so) and its listings on the NYSE (2018) and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (1997). QIAGEN had a market capitalization of around $10 billion in October 2019.

Peer left QIAGEN in 2019 to found PS Capital GmbH, a unit of his family office. He is co-founder and chairman of Resolve Biosciences GmbH, chairman of Centogene NV (Nasdaq: CNTG), supervisory board member of Siemens Healthineers AG (Frankfurt: SHL).