• Joined the Giving Pledge: 12/10/2013 - Read the Letter
• Estimated Net Worth: $6.1 billion
• Forbes Rank: #196
• Industry: Medical device manufacturing
• Born: 1935
• Residence: Wilson, WY (native of Switzerland)

Hansjörg Wyss, a Swiss-trained structural engineer, attended Harvard Business School and worked in a variety if industries before founding Synthes/USA, a division of Synthes, the Swiss medical device manufacturer. Wyss would go on to become Synthes chairman, CEO and largest shareholder before selling the firm to Johnson & Johnson for $20.2 billion in 2012.

Related Foundations

• • The Wyss Foundation
  • For Year Ending: 12/31/2017
  • Assets: $2,505,222,479
  • Giving: $38,118,528
  • 990-PF and more at Foundation Directory Online
• • HJW Foundation
  • For Year Ending: 12/31/2012
  • Assets: $308,640,429
  • Giving: $9,958,107
  • 990-PF and more at Foundation Directory Online
• • The Wyss Medical Foundation, Inc.
  • For Year Ending: 12/31/2017
  • Assets: $62,879,839
  • Giving: $5,788,820
  • 990-PF and more at Foundation Directory Online
• PeaceNexus Foundation (Switzerland)

Charitable Board Service

• Grand Canyon Trust
  Hansjoerg Wyss Medical Foundation
  HJW Foundation
  Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
  The Wilderness Society
  The Wyss Foundation
  Wyss Peace Foundation
  PeaceNexus Foundation (Switzerland)

Online Communications

• Facebook (Wyss Foundation)