Portrait of Stéphane Bancel

Rank #2046

Stéphane Bancel

Net worth $2.0B

Biotech, vaccines · France

Born
Jul 20, 1972
Age
53
Source
Biotech, vaccines
Residence
Boston, Massachusetts
Citizenship
France
Marital status
Married
Children
2
Education
Master of Science in Engineering, Ecole Centrale Paris; Master of Business Administration, Harvard University; Master of Science in Engineering, University of Minnesota

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Stephane Bancel is the CEO of Cambridge, Massachusetts-based biotech firm Moderna, known for its Covid-19 vaccine.
  • He became CEO of Moderna in 2011 and owns a roughly 5.5% stake in the publicly traded company.
  • Before joining Moderna, Bancel was the CEO of French diagnostics company BioMerieux, founded by fellow French billionaire Alain Merieux.
  • Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine was granted full FDA approval in January 2022; it had previously received emergency-use authorization in December 2020.
  • Moderna was founded in 2010 and went public in December 2018; the company develops drugs and vaccines using messenger RNA.

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