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Art Levinson
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- Genentech, Apple
- Industry
- Diversified
- Residence
- Hillsborough, California
- Education
- Princeton University (Doctorate)University of Washington (Bachelor of Science)
Assets
- Alphabet324,000 shares @ --GOOGL-US
- Apple4,591,000 shares @ --AAPL-US
Biography
Art Levinson has been chairman of the board of Apple since 2011; he owns more shares of Apple than CEO Tim Cook.
He was the CEO of successful biotech firm Genentech from 1995 to 2009 and served as its chairman from 1999 to 2014.
Levinson was also on the board of Google from 2004 to 2009. A few years later, he was named CEO of Calico, a health company created by Google.
He has authored or co-authored dozens of scientific papers and been named an inventor on 11 U.S. patents.
He has a Ph.D in biochemical sciences from Princeton.