Bernard Fraisse

Bernard Robert Louis Fraisse is a French billionaire businessman, the chairman, founder and 100% owner of Fareva, a French pharmaceutical company, with annual revenues of $1.4 billion in 2015.

Bernard Fraisse is the CEO of Fareva, one of the world’s largest contract pharmaceutical, household and cosmetics companies.

After getting his degree in mechanical engineering, Fraisse worked as a chemical salesman before starting his own business in 1990.

The first year his company generated $4.5 million in revenue. In 2017, Fareva pulled in $1.6 billion in revenue.

He refuses to take any private equity money and intends to keep the company in family hands.

Fareva, headquartered in France, has nearly 10,000 employees.