Ernesto Bertarelli is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on September 22, 1965 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was given the title Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 2003 by French the President He was named Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur by French President Jacques Chirac in 2003 in recognition of his various successes. in 2003 to honor his many achievements.
Ernesto Bertarelli (born 22 September 1965) is an Italian-born Swiss billionaire businessman and philanthropist.
Born in Rome, his family moved to Switzerland in 1977. He graduated from Babson College in 1989, and earned an MBA at Harvard Business School in 1993.
He got married to the former the 1988 Miss UK and songwriter Kirsty Roper in the year 2000. They had three kids together.
He earned billions of dollars for his business by shifting its focus away from pharmaceuticals and towards biotechnology, and also for identifying the use of natural hormones to treat female infertility.
His grandfather, Pietro, joined Serono, a pharmaceutical company founded in 1906. In 1935 he became the company’s managing director, a position he was succeeded in by his son, Fabio Bertarelli, in 1965. Bertarelli became CEO in 1996 and, along with his sister Dona, inherited ownership in 1998 on the death of his father. Changing the company’s focus from pharmaceuticals to biotechnology, revenues increased from $809 million in 1996 to $2.8 billion in 2006. The company gained fame from its discovery of a natural hormone used in the treatment of female infertility, and its treatments for multiple sclerosis and growth hormone deficiency.
