Hansjoerg Wyss
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- Medical devices
- Industry
- Healthcare
- Residence
- Wilson, Wyoming
- Education
- Harvard University (Master of Business Administration)Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Master of Science)
- Marital Status
- Divorced
- Children
- 1
Assets
- Bellevue Group1,300,000 shares @ --BBN-CH
- Lalique Group0 shares @ --LLQ-CH
- Molecular Partners0 shares @ --MOLN-CH
- Novocure8,141,000 shares @ --NVCR-US
Biography
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 company NovoCure and the Chelsea Football Club in the U.K.
One of the most philanthropic people in the world, Wyss also has charitable foundations with assets of over $2 billion. He is a signatory of the Giving Pledge by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, which asks billionaires to commit to donating at least half of their fortunes to charity.
In 2022, he pledged $350 million to the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard, where he had already made pledges totaling $381 million since 2009.
In 2018, Wyss' foundation pledged $1 billion for conservation efforts over a decade. It upped its pledge to $1.5 billion in 2021.
About
In 2014, Wyss pledged $120 million to two universities, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, to establish a center to accelerate medical breakthroughs.
Though he is a Swiss citizen, Wyss is a longtime Wyoming resident.