Frederik Paulsen
$7.1B
Born
Oct 30, 1950
Age
75
Source of Wealth
Health care
Residence
Lausanne,
Citizenship
Sweden
Marital Status
Divorced
Children
3
Education
- 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.
- Paulsen enjoys extreme adventure travel: he was the first person to cross the Bering Strait from Alaska to Russia in an ultralight aircraft.
- Paulsen's father named the company Ferring after the name for inhabitants of F?hr, his native island off the coast of Germany.
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