Randal Kirk Biography
Randal Kirk(Full name: Randal J. Kirk)is an American businessman and investor in pharmaceuticals and biotechnology.
He is the chairman and chief executive officer of Intrexon (NYSE: XON), a biotechnology company.
Randal started as a lawyer but is best known for his investments in pharmaceutical and biotech companies. In addition to high-profile sales of New River Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Clinical Data, Inc, Kirk also founded investment firm Third Security, LLC, and has held board seats with biotech companies, such as Scios, Inc., and ZIOPHARM Oncology. He is a billionaire and is listed on the Forbes 400.
In 1983, he partnered with Bland County pharmacist John Gregory to found the next-day pharmaceutical distributor General Injectables and Vaccines. Kirk and his partners would go on to sell the business to Henry Schein, Inc. for $65 million in 1998.
In 1996, Kirk founded New River Pharmaceuticals, where he served as chairman and CEO and took the company public in 2004. The developer of attention-deficit drug Vyvanse, New River would prove to be Kirk’s single biggest payoff when he sold the company to the Shire in 2007 for $2.6 billion, making over a $1 billion for Kirk himself.
In 1999, Kirk founded the life-sciences investment firm Third Security, LLC, where he is senior managing director, CEO, and chairman.
From 2000 to 2002, Kirk served as a member of the board of directors for Scios, Inc., a maker of heart disease medication that later sold to Johnson & Johnson for $2.4 billion.
Kirk also became the majority stockholder and chairman of Newton, Massachusetts-based pharmaceutical company Clinical Data, Inc. In 2011, shortly after Clinical Data’s drug Viibryd received regulatory approval, Forest Laboratories bought Clinical Data for $1.2 billion.
Kirk became involved with biotechnology company Intrexon in the 2000s. He was named the chairman of its board in 2008 and became CEO in 2009. Kirk took Intrexon public in 2013, taking the company’s market cap to $2.5 billion with the IPO.
Kirk is involved in a number of companies advocating the approval of genetically-altered animals, including salmon (through AquaBounty), disease-resistant mosquitoes (through Oxitec), and an apple which resists browning (through Okanagan Specialty Fruits).
Other projects of Kirk’s companies include creating cancer treatments, gasoline substitutes, crop protection, and improving bovine genetics.
Randal Kirk Age
Randal J. Kirk is an American businessman and investor in pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. He was born on March 1. 1954 in Pleasanton, CA. Randal Kirk is 65 years old as of 2019.
Randal Kirk Family
Kirk was born in Pleasanton, California where his family later moved to Texas before settling in Virginia. He was the son of Joe Kirk (U.S. Air Force master sergeant).
He graduated from Pulaski High School in Pulaski County, Virginia. Following high school, Kirk worked selling cars and motorcycles and enrolled part-time at Radford University to study business.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics at Radford in 1976, followed by a Juris Doctor at the University of Virginia in 1979.
Randal Kirk Wife |Randal Kirk Children
Kirk married his wife, donna kirk with whom they have 4 children, called;
Kirk Julian, wife Kristin, Kellie Artrip, husband Adam, Zylphia Kirk, and Jupiter Kirk; and also his brother Martin who died 2016 at the age of 25 years old.
Randal Kirk Net Worth
Randal J. Kirk is an American businessman and investor in pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. Kirk is the chairman and chief executive officer of Intrexon, a biotechnology company.
He started as a lawyer but is best known for his investments in pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Randal Kirk has an estimated Net Worth of 2.7 billion dollars as of 2019. and he is the richest person in the world.
Randal Kirk Email
You can contact Randal Kirk through the following email address: E-mail. Randal J. Kirk.
Randal Kirk Intrexon
Kirk became involved with Intrexon (a biotechnology company) in the 2000s. He was chosen as the chairman of its board in 2008 and became CEO in 2009. He took the company public in 2013, taking the company’s market cap to $2.5 billion with the IPO.
Randal Kirk Fairchild
Bad check to Clear Lake auto dealership
This is a news story published on 10th October 2017.
CLEAR LAKE – An Iowa man wrote a big old bum check to a Clear Lake auto dealership, leading to his arrest on felony theft charges.
Clear Lake police tell NIT that on October 9, 2017, 47-year-old Kirk Fairchild of Council Bluffs, Iowa was arrested on a charge of felony C first-degree theft. The charge stems from an ongoing CLPD investigation beginning in September. Additional charges may be filed, police chief Pete Roth says.
Allegedly, on September 27, 2017, the CLPD took a report from a local car dealership of a theft of a motor vehicle by check.
The vehicle purchaser, Fairchild, allegedly wrote a personal check in the amount of $55,999.75, to the car dealership for a 2017 Ford Explorer on August 31, 2017.
Bank statements indicated Fairchild had a negative balance in his checking account from July 2017, through September 20, 2017. The check was returned to the business stating the account was frozen.
CLPD worked with the Omaha Police Department to recover the Explorer on October 3, 2017.w River Pharmaceuticals.
Randal Kirk Harmattan
Kirk Hammett, could not make without a curious thought, He is Born in San Francisco, and raised in the East Bay town of El Sobrante, he gained an interest in music from his brother Rick’s extensive record collection, (Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, and UFO).
It all led to him properly picking up the guitar when he was just 15 years old his start being a wholly unglamorous Montgomery Ward catalog special accompanied by a shoebox with the 4-inch speaker for an amp.
After picking up a 1978 Fender Stratocaster, Kirk experimented by mixing and matching guitar parts to find his perfect sound before taking part for a 1974 Gibson Flying V.
In a determined effort to upgrade his equipment, Kirk even took a shift at Burger King to get the cash together for his first Marshall amp.
Around that time, Kirk also co-founded Exodus with Paul Baloff, and the East Bay thrashers crossed paths with Metallica twice, in late ’82 and early ’83, as a support act.
In April 1983, He received a phone call from Metallica in New York. They were in the process of firing guitarist Dave Mustaine and wanted Kirk to fly out and audition.
Kirk got the money together for the flight, left California for the first time and arrived in the late afternoon to find three guys who were still waking up. Immediately he, and they knew the fit was right despite the fact nobody ever formally invited him to join.
He is a keen student of his instrument even today, Hammett followed his first ‘Kill (Em All’ tour by taking lessons from Joe Satriani) and embarked upon passage of guitar self-education that took in jazz, blues, and classical styles.
Indeed, education has always been Kirk’s answer to potential burnout. After the marathon ‘Black’ album tour ended in 1993, he immediately went to the City College of San Francisco where he took classes, something he credits as the reason behind his reinvention as a guitarist on the ‘Load’ and ‘Re-load’ albums.
Kirk continues to bring not only a dazzling array of lead guitar parts to Metallica’s music but also some savage referee, having started sharing 6-string duties with James during the ‘Load’ era.
Randal Kirk Recognition
He has been profiled by SynBioBeta and Forbes. In 2008, Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine named Kirk Virginia’s Outstanding Industrialist for the Year.
He has spoken at the SynBioBeta Conference, BioFlorida, Klick Ideas Exchange and was a Borlaug Dialogue Speaker at the World Food Prize.
Randal Kirk Philanthropy and other roles
Following the sale of General Injectables and Vaccines, Kirk donated $1 million to Radford University, creating the Zylphia Shu-En Kirk Endowment named after his daughter. He has served on the board of directors of the Radford University Foundation and the school’s board of visitors. Kirk was a member of University of Virginia’s board of visitors from 2009 to 2012.
Kirk has also donated substantially to political causes. He considers himself a political independent and has supported both Republicans and Democrats.
He has been especially involved in Virginia politics, donating $1.8 million to candidates for state office, including $200,000 to Terry McAuliffe’s 2009 Virginia gubernatorial election. Since 1994 he has donated $183,250 in federal elections.