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Ernesto Bertarelli
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Since 1996, Ernesto Bertarelli has been the Chief Executive Officer of Serono International SA, Geneva. The company was sold to Merck KGaA, Germany on 5 January 2007. He started his career with Serono in 1985 and held several positions in sales and marketing. Prior to his appointment as CEO, he served for five years as Deputy CEO. Mr. Bertarelli holds a bachelor of science from the Babson College Boston and a Harvard MBA. He was born on 22 September 1965.
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Ernesto Bertarelli and Peter Gilmour are at the sharp end of the new America’s Cup hierarchy, with ‘endlessly’ wealthy individuals replacing any pretence at corporate sponsorship. But will might overcome spirit and innovation – and could inevitable personal battles obscure the main goal?
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When he was in his late 20s, Ernesto Bertarelli had the world at his feet. A passionate yachtsman, he was handsome and wealthy, on his way to getting a Harvard M.B.A., and his girlfriend was a former beauty queen. But when his father Fabio fell sick with cancer, Ernesto had to grow up fast. In 1996 he took over Serono, a fertility-drug company Fabio had built up after inheriting it from his father. If anybody inside or outside the Geneva-based company had doubts about the succession, those doubts quickly disappeared. Under the younger Bertarelli's leadership, Serono has shifted its focus from pharmaceuticals to biotechnology and almost doubled its revenues to $1.5 billion in 2002, making it the world's third largest biotech company after Amgen and Genentech.
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Ernesto Bertarelli will have his own chapter in future histories of the America's Cup. He reinvented how to win and how to defend. He put the venue out to bid, created pre-event racing—and is starring in a celebrated controversy. Now he tells SAIL how a young, Italian-born Swiss billionaire came to this.
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Ernesto Bertarelli serves as the Vice-President of EBE (Emerging Biopharmaceutical Enterprises, an EFPIA specialized group). Mr. Bertarelli served as the Chief Executive Officer of Merck Serono S.A., Geneva from January 1996 to January 9, 2007. Mr. Bertarelli served as the Managing Director and Member of Executive Management Board of Merck Serono S.A. until January 9, 2007. Mr. Bertarelli began his career with Merck Serono S.A. in 1985, since which time he has held several
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The quiet 37-year-old leader of the Alinghi challenge, Ernesto Bertarelli, has created a syndicate that is an impressive blend of style and substance. Bertarelli made up the word “Alinghi” when he was young. It rolls off the tongue nicely. Alinghi represents “joy, dreams, a certain lightness, but ... speed and action,” says Bertarelli. The team’s arresting logo resembles the wakes of circling boats, and its colors, black and red, represent the colors of Switzerland and New Zealand.
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