Markus Riester
Chief Executive Officer at maristechcon
Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMarkus Riester is a MedTech and high-tech executive with 25+ years of experience translating advanced science into scalable businesses, currently leading Nephrolyx to make measured GFR a clinical standard. He combines deep technical roots in polymer science and PCB/optics R&D with hands-on operational experience scaling companies, M&A integration, and commercializing diagnostics and bioprocessing technologies. An inventor on 35+ patents and a certified executive coach (IMD IECC), he pairs technical inventiveness with leadership development to build high-performance teams. Markus also advises startups and investors across Europe, serves as an EU innovation reviewer, and mentors medtech founders—often bridging lab-grade innovation to high-volume manufacturing and regulatory readiness. Notably, his background spans both microscopic process engineering and strategic venture building, enabling him to spot practical routes from prototype to market.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Chemical Technology, Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Chemical Technology at Fachhochschule DarmstadtDr. rer. nat. Polymer Science Surface technology, Dr. rer. nat. Polymer Science Surface technology at Universität OsnabrückExecutive Coach, Executive Coach at IMD
English, German, French, prompting
Github Skills (79)
spatial-transcriptomics10
seq10
genomics10
spark-ml10
rna-seq10
genome10
classification10
sequencing10
single-cell-genomics10
bioinformatics10
cran10
duplicate9
science9
variants9
package-management9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
lima1/PureCN
Apr 2016 - Apr 2022
Copy number calling and variant classification using targeted short read sequencing
Contributions:1182 commits, 67 PRs, 622 pushes in 6 years 1 month
callingsequencingshortcell-free-dnabioinformatics
lima1/franzpedigree
Nov 2010 - Sep 2020
Contributions:31 commits, 5 pushes, 1 issue in 9 years 11 months
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