Dennis Gillings
Durham, North Carolina
United Kingdom
drug testing, Self Made
$1,900,000,000
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#1349 Billionaires 2019
Dennis Gillings is the founder and former CEO and chairman of clinical research company Quintiles Transnational.Gillings, a former biostatistics professor, launched Quintiles in 1982 with the goal of making clinical trials for drugs faster and more efficient.Quintiles merged with healthcare data firm IMS Health in 2016 and a year later changed its name to IQVIA. Before the merger, Quintiles had annual revenues of $5.7 billion. Gilings retired from the board of IQVIA in April 2018.
Gillings received a Commander of the Order of the British Empire from Queen Elizabeth in 2004 for his work in the pharmaceutical industry. The University of North Carolina's school of global public health is named for Gillings. He donated $50 million to the university in 2007.
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