Rank #2118
Amy Wyss
Net worth $2.0B
Medical equipment · United States
- Born
- Jan 01, 1971
- Age
- 55
- Source
- Medical equipment
- Residence
- Wilson, Wyoming
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Children
- 0
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Skidmore College
Net worth over time
Biography
- Amy Wyss's father, Swiss billionaire Hansjoerg Wyss, founded medical equipment firm Synthes in the 1970s, where she worked for years.
- Johnson & Johnson acquired Synthes in 2012 for $19.7 billion in cash and stock. Amy Wyss received a portion of the proceeds from the sale.
- A 2014 U.S. Senate investigation into offshore tax evasion, which did not implicate the Wyss family, revealed her fortune.
- She founded the LOR Foundation in 2007 to improve the quality of life for rural communities in the rural Mountain West.
- Wyss met her husband, Ed Jaramillo, on a chairlift in the Rockies.
- Wyss is both an American and Swiss citizen.