Randal J. Kirk

Randal J. Kirk is an American businessman and investor in pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. Kirk is the chairman and chief executive officer of Intrexon, a biotechnology company. Kirk started as a lawyer, but is best known for his investments in pharmaceutical and biotech companies.

• Randal Kirk, a former practicing attorney, is the CEO of biotech firm Intrexon.
• He achieved his first entrepreneurial success with an injectable drug and vaccine distributor, which eventually sold for $145 million.
• Intrexon, founded in 1998, has made waves for its innovative products, like apples that never brown and a genetically modified species of salmon.
• In June 2018 it announced a partnership with the Gates Foundation to develop a “self-limiting” strain of mosquitoes that will help combat malaria.
• RJ sold greeting cards door-to-door when he was 9 years old, and claims he had an 85% close rate.