Bernhard Mohr has headed the newly founded Evonik Venture Capital unit since 2012. He has more than 20 years of professional experience in venture capital financing and the chemical industry. Before joining Evonik in 1996, he held various positions at BASF Group in Germany and Spain. Bernhard Mohr is active in various specialist and supervisory bodies and has advised on IPOs and M&A transactions.
After studying chemistry in Stuttgart and Cincinnati, he obtained his doctorate at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz. He then spent research periods in Japan, the USA and France, where he worked with the later Nobel Prize winners Robert Grubbs and Jean-Pierre Sauvage.