Robert Duggan (venture capitalist)

Robert "Bob" Duggan is an American venture capitalist and business magnate. He is the former CEO of biopharmaceutical company Pharmacyclics[1] and previously served as CEO of surgical systems maker Computer Motion from 1997 to 2003.[2]

Duggan will receive over $3.55 billion from the sale of Pharmacyclics to AbbVie in "one of the biggest paydays ever from the buyout of a publicly held company."[3][2][4][5]

As CEO and Chairman of Pharmacyclics from 2008 to 2015, Duggan had opted not to receive compensation from the company.[6]

Personal life

Duggan attended, but did not graduate from the University of California, Santa Barbara and University of California, Los Angeles.[7]

He is a prominent member of the Church of Scientology and has been referred to as its "largest financial supporter" by former Scientology executive Mark Rathbun.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Sean Williams (27 February 2013). "This Is One Incredible CEO". fool.com.
  2. 1 2 "The $3.55 billion Man". America's Markets.
  3. ↑ Antoine Gara. "Robert Duggan". Forbes.
  4. ↑ "Pharmacyclics May Soon Be Acquired by Johnson & Johnson for $18 Billion". Science Times.
  5. ↑ "The Hiring Guru: Robert Duggan Billionaire". The Huffington Post.
  6. ↑ Gary Strauss (March 24, 2015). "The $3.55 billion Man". USA Today. Retrieved May 29, 2015.
  7. ↑ George Thurlow (Summer 2015). "Everybody's a Genius". UC Santa Barbara Alumni Association.
  8. ↑ Brendan Coffey (January 29, 2013). "Robert Duggan Scientology's biggest donor". publisher=SFGate.

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