About
Sonja Jost is a German-Italian engineer and co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of DUDE CHEM, a virtual green deeptech CDMO for chemicals that has raised funding from European venture capital firms and includes chemist John Warner on its development team. In 2013 she founded DexLeChem, a spin-off from the UniCat cluster of excellence at TU Berlin, which entered the chemical-pharmaceutical market and became profitable. Since 2017 she has been a re-elected member of the General Assembly of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce Berlin, where she serves as Vice President, and she has held roles on the Economic Advisory Board of the German Green Party parliamentary group (2023–2024), the editorial board of Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews (since 2018), and the jury of the European Innovation Council Accelerator (2018–2024).
CEO at DuDe Chem
Intro paths
In turn, Sonja can intro founders to DuDe Chem's investors below.
Experience
- DUDE CHEMChief Executive Officercurrent2021 — present
- TUB/CO – TU Berlin CorporateMember of The Supervisory Boardcurrent2025 — present
- DexLeChem GmbHCEO & Co-Foundercurrent2013 — present
- GefnMember of the Board of Advisors2017 — 2024Iceland
- SanofiR&D Project Lead2017Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Area
- Technische Universität BerlinProject leader of governmentally funded third-party project2011 — 2013Berlin, Germany
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Sonja Jost?
- Sonja Jost is a German-Italian engineer and co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of DUDE CHEM, a virtual green deeptech CDMO for chemicals that has raised funding from European venture capital firms and includes chemist John Warner on its development team. In 2013 she founded DexLeChem, a spin-off from the UniCat cluster of excellence at TU Berlin, which entered the chemical-pharmaceutical market and became profitable. Since 2017 she has been a re-elected member of the General Assembly of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce Berlin, where she serves as Vice President, and she has held roles on the Economic Advisory Board of the German Green Party parliamentary group (2023–2024), the editorial board of Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews (since 2018), and the jury of the European Innovation Council Accelerator (2018–2024).
- Where does Sonja Jost work?
- Sonja Jost is CEO of DuDe Chem.
- What companies did Sonja Jost found?
- Sonja Jost founded DuDe Chem.
- Where did Sonja Jost go to school?
- Sonja Jost studied at Technische Universität Berlin (Research Scholarship - Institute of Chemistry).
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