Profil Financier
Carl Cook occupe actuellement le rang #436 du classement mondial StarFortune (secteur santé & biotech). Fortune nette estimée : $8.7 B ($0 sur 24h).
Carl Cook took over as CEO of his parents' medical device manufacturer, Cook Group, when his father Bill died in 2011.
The $2.7 billion (sales) company sold one of its subsidiaries Cook Pharmica to drug delivery technology company Catalent for $950 million in 2017.
Cook's parents started the business in their Bloomington, Indiana apartment in 1963.
Cook is also the president of a Cook Group life sciences division called Cook MyoSite, which is developing a cell therapy to treat urinary incontinence.
Cook's father, Bill, sold medical supplies in Chicago, but he hated the city, so he packed up the family and moved to Indiana.
With $1,500, Bill Cook bought a soldering iron, a blowtorch and plastic tubing and made then-new cardiovascular catheters.