Rank #467
Wolfgang Marguerre & family
Net worth $7.9B
Pharmaceuticals · Germany
- Born
- Jun 04, 1941
- Age
- 84
- Source
- Pharmaceuticals
- Residence
- Heidelberg
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 3
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Wolfgang Marguerre founded Octapharma in Switzerland in 1983 and turned it into one of the world's largest manufacturers of blood plasma products.
- Positioned in a lucrative market, Octapharma has production plants in six countries, over 11,000 employees and annual revenue of more than 3 billion euros.
- The company has research and development and manufacturing operations, and has about 200 donation centers.
- Octapharma is also a leading corporate sponsor of Save One Life, an international nonprofit that supports children and adults with blood disorders.
- Octa is taken from the Greek word for eight, the factor deficient in people with hemophilia A.
- Marguerre donated $17.5 million to renovate Theater Heidelberg and $1.13 million to accept and integrate refugees in Heidelberg.