Hansjoerg Wyss

Hansjörg Wyss is a Swiss entrepreneur, businessman, and philanthropist. He is the founder and was president, then chairman, of Synthes USA, until its sale in 2012. Wyss lives in Wyoming and has supported philanthropic causes relating to environmental protection, social justice, and science.

• Hansjoerg Wyss‘ fortune stems from his 2012 sale of medical device manufacturer Synthes, which he founded, to Johnson & Johnson for $20.2 billion.
• He now holds stakes in publicly-traded biotech companies NovoCure and Molecular Partners.
• One of the most philanthropic people in the world, Wyss also has charitable foundations with assets of over $2 billion.
• In 2014, he pledged $120 million to two universities, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, to establish a center to accelerate medical breakthroughs.
• In a New York Times Op/Ed he wrote in 2018, Wyss pledged to donated $1 billion to conservation efforts around the world over the next 10 years.