Portrait of Niels Peter Louis-Hansen

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Niels Peter Louis-Hansen

Net worth $3.9B

Medical devices · Denmark

Born
Oct 25, 1947
Age
78
Source
Medical devices
Residence
Humlebaek
Citizenship
Denmark
Marital status
Married
Children
1
Education

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Biography

  • Niels Peter Louis-Hansen is the deputy chairman of Coloplast, a large Danish healthcare company.
  • The company provides medical devices and services in the fields of colostomy, continence and urology; products include colostomy bags and catheters.
  • Hansen owns one-fifth of the public company and is its largest shareholder.
  • His late father, Aage Louis-Hansen, founded the business in 1957 and took it public in 1983.
  • He also holds a stake in fellow medical care device company Ambu, based right outside of Copenhagen.
  • Louis-Hansen is the largest shareholder in a Danish blood testing company called ViroGates, which had its IPO in 2018.
  • Louis-Hansen also manages a foundation, named after his late parents, that funds cultural and scientific initiatives, and which owns 11% of Coloplast.

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