Rank #614
Isabel Boehringer
Net worth $6.5B
Pharmaceuticals · Germany
- Born
- Sep 05, 1980
- Age
- 45
- Source
- Pharmaceuticals
- Residence
- Ingelheim
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Marital status
- Children
- 0
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Isabel Boehringer derives her fortune from Boehringer Ingelheim, the world's largest private pharmaceutical company.
- Founded by Albert Boehringer in 1885, the company made ingredients for pharmacies, textile merchants and the food industry and grew to a workforce of 1,500 by the time of his death.
- Today some of the company's most well-known drugs treat COPD, anti-coagulation and type 2 diabetes.
- Boehringer Ingelheim now employs 53,000 people and has a presence in 130 markets.
- Isabel and 14 members of the family -- all in the third, fourth or fifth generation -- own equal parts of the company.