Education
He obtained his Master of Business Administration at European Institute of Business Administration (Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires) in 1972.
He obtained his Master of Business Administration at European Institute of Business Administration (Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires) in 1972.
He founded Octapharma in 1983 with Robert Taub. As of October 2015, Forbes estimated his Netto worth at United States$2.8 billion. Born in Germany in 1941, Marguerre was raised and educated in Heidelberg, where he read Political and Economic Science at Heidelberg University.
After which, he was managing director at Pharmaplast (division of Associated Press Möller) for three years in Copenhagen, before moving to Baxter-Travenol Europe in Brussels as their director and business manager of Hyland-Division.
In 1979, he became senior executive vice-president of the Revlon Healthcare Group in Paris, a role which he continued until 1983, when he founded Octapharma. Marguerre sponsors 70 children with bleeding disorders in India, Nepal, Romania and the Philippines through Save One Life, an international non-profit organization that supports children and adults with blood disorders.
Marguerre has played the violin since the age of six. A supporter of the arts, he helped to save the Heidelberg Theatre which had been threatened with closure.
When the theatre was reopened in 2012 the newly built state-of-the-art stage was named the “Marguerre-Saal” (Marguerre Hall) in his honour.
Marguerre speaks five languages.
