Rank #2018
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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