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PROFILE
Frederik Paulsen
$7.5B
$2M (0.03%)
Real Time Net Worth
as of 4/30/24
#349 in the world todayReflects change since 5 pm ET of prior trading day.
Photo by David M. Benett/Getty Images
About Frederik Paulsen
- Frederick Paulsen inherited small drugmaker Ferring Pharmaceuticals, founded by his father in 1950.
- When he took over running the business in 1983, it generated $15 million in annual revenue.
- Today the biotech outfit, which makes infertility, obstetrics, urology, gastroenterology and endocrinology drugs, has estimated sales of $2.2 billion.
- Ferring employs more than 6,500 people and has subsidiaries in nearly 60 countries.
- Board members include H?l?ne Ploix, former director of the IMF, and Alexandra, the Countess of Frederiksborg, a former Danish princess.
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Personal Stats
- Age
- 73
- Source of Wealth
- Health care
- Residence
- Lausanne, Switzerland
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Marital Status
- Divorced
- Children
- 3
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