Hansjoerg Wyss
Wilson, Wyoming
Master of Business Administration, Harvard University | Master of Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Switzerland
medical devices, Self Made
$6,200,000,000
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#290 Billionaires 2019
Hansjoerg Wyss' fortune stems from his 2012 sale of medical device manufacturer Synthes, which he founded, to Johnson & Johnson for $20.2 billion.He now holds stakes in publicly-traded biotech companies NovoCure and Molecular Partners.One of the most philanthropic people in the world, Wyss also has charitable foundations with assets of over $2 billion.In 2014, he pledged $120 million to two universities, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, to establish a center to accelerate medical breakthroughs.In a New York Times Op/Ed he wrote in 2018, Wyss pledged to donated $1 billion to conservation efforts around the world over the next 10 years.
In 2016 his Wyss Foundation donated 16,000 acres of forest land to a Romanian conservation organization.Though he is a Swiss citizen, Wyss is a longtime Wyoming resident.
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