Andre Hoffmann
Vice-Chairman
Board of Directors
Roche
Switzerland
Biography
Andre Hoffmann was born in 1958 and is the great-grandson of Fritz Hoffmann who, in 1896, founded the forebear of drugmaker Roche Holding, the world's fourth largest pharmaceutical company. Together with other family members he retains voting control over the Swiss company that today employs more than 88,500 people and operates in 150 countries worldwide. Notable acquisitions by the medical firm include the purchase of Corange in 1998, a Bermuda-based holding company that owned Mannheim, Germany-based drug and diagnostics company Boehringer Mannheim for $10.2 billion dollars in cash. That transaction solidified the fortune of Germany's Engelhorn family, including Curt Engelhorn, who was Boehringer's CEO for 37 years. Roche completed the purchase of San Francisco-based biotech Genentech Inc., for $46.8 billion in 2009. Since 1996 Andreas Hoffmann has been a non-executive board member of Roche as well as vice president of conservation organization World Wildlife Fund that his father Lukas Hoffmann helped establish.
Research Interest
Business
