Portrait of Randal J. Kirk

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Randal J. Kirk

Net worth $2.1B

Pharmaceuticals · United States

Born
Mar 01, 1954
Age
72
Source
Pharmaceuticals
Residence
Manalapan, Florida
Citizenship
United States
Marital status
Married
Children
3
Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Radford; Doctor of Jurisprudence, University of Virginia

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Randal Kirk, a former practicing attorney, is executive chairman of investment firm Third Security. Though the firm liquidated its life sciences-focused VC funds in 2020, it continues to manage Kirk's family money.
  • In 2020, he stepped down as CEO of biotech firm Precigen, but was appointed executive chairman.
  • He achieved his first entrepreneurial success with an injectable drug and vaccine distributor, which he eventually sold for $145 million.
  • His investments have made waves for innovative products, like apples that never brown and a genetically modified species of salmon.
  • Kirk sold greeting cards door-to-door when he was 9 years old, and claims he had an 85% close rate.
  • Kirk's father was a master sergeant in the U.S. Air Force.
  • Kirk previously lived on a farm in Virginia, where he was an avid falconer.

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