About Us
GlycoSpot is an industrial biotechnology company specializing in the development, production, and distribution of ready-to-use enzyme activity screening tools.
The development of the chromogenic substrate and the assay technology started as a research project at the University of Copenhagen in 2012.
We aimed at developing a high-throughput assay for initial enzyme screenings. In December 2014 we founded GlycoSpot and took the technology to a real start-up environment. Since then we have been continuously growing.
Our Team

M.B.A. Thomas Lacentra
Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Julia Schückel
Senior Science Manager

Dr. Stjepan K. Kračun
Senior Innovation Manager

Dr. Troels Balmer Christensen
Technical Director

M.Sc. Aušra Marčiuškaitė
Commercial Project Manager

M.Sc. Laura Gaurás
Research Scientist

Robert Bayer
Web Developer

B.Sc. Anna Caroline Nørregaard
Junior Scientist

B.Sc. Periklis Aravoglou
Junior Scientist

B.Sc. Anne Katrine Laursen
Junior Scientist

Maryana Adnan Dhaka
Laboratory Technician Trainee

Lennart Hansen
Intern
Executive Board
Strategic management is ensured by a board of directors. Ours consists of experts with high-level competencies within scientific research, commercial experience, and extensive knowledge within establishment and scaling of start-ups.

Ole Kring
Co-founder, Chairman of the Board, CEO of Zoetis Denmark

Mads Hartvig Clausen
Board member, co-inventor, co-founder, Professor at DTU.

Anders H. Jensen
Investment Manager, CAPNOVA representative

Frank Hansen
Board member, Attorney (L)
Advisory Board
William G.T. Willats
Co-inventor and co-founder.
W. Willats is an expert in plant cell wall glycobiology incl. plant polysaccharides, glycosyl hydrolase enzymes, biomass, and functional foods. He has published numerous highly cited papers in this area. He is also a pioneer in the field of carbohydrate microarrays and was one of the first to develop this technology in 2002.