Hansjörg Wyss is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist from Switzerland. He founded Synthes USA and served as its president, then chairman, until the company was sold in 2012.
Wyss is a Wyoming native who has donated to projects involving environmental protection, social justice, and science.
In 2009, he founded the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, as well as the Wyss Foundation, which works to conserve natural ecosystems, such as public lands in the Western United States, Africa, South America, and South Australia.
According to Forbes, Wyss has a net worth of US$5.6 billion as of 2017.
Wyss was born in the Swiss city of Bern in 1935. His father was a salesman for mechanical calculators, while his mother was a stay-at-home mom.
He grew up with two sisters in an apartment. Wyss got an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1965 after getting a master’s degree in civil and structural engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich in 1959.
Following that, he worked in the textile sector in Pakistan, Turkey, and the Philippines, including as a plant engineer and project manager for Chrysler.
Who Are Hansjorg Wyss Parents?
Hansjorg Wyss Parents are Swiss natives. Their names are not available to the public as of now. His dad was a salesman and his mom was a housewife. Wyss’s Parents gave birth to three children and he is the only male child.
