Per Källblad co-founded Beactica in 2006 and is Chief Executive Officer. He has significant international experience in interdisciplinary pharmaceutical research and has worked in collaborations with Aventis, Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, Roche, Cancer Research UK, Peakdale Molecular, Biovitrum and Tibotec.

Per received his Ph.D. in Drug Design from Cambridge University, UK. He was a founding scientist at De Novo Pharmaceuticals Ltd (1999-2004), a Cambridge University spin-off that raised £17.5m in venture capital to bring a new drug discovery tool to market. At Medivir AB he worked with preclinical strategies for therapeutic targets on internal and external projects (2004-2006).