Marcel Wijma is founder and managing director of Van Leeuwenhoeck Inc. (VLI). VLI is actively engaged in the financial research of life sciences companies in Europe, North America and Australia. VLI provides institutional investors and other professional investors with independent, unbiased research on the real value of innovative life sciences companies. In 2009, Wijma was named one of the top three biotech analysts in Europe by the Financial Times/Starmine. He leads the professional VLR research team, which is augmented by selected external financial researchers with a specialization in life sciences. Wijma has a master's degree in financial economics from Erasmus University in Rotterdam.