Frederik paulsen biography of william hill

“Can you hear me OK? It’s not a great line…” those were some of my first words to Frederik Paulsen, Jr.

– the Chairman of Ferring Pharmaceuticals; a company he inherited as a small family concern (with revenues of around U$15 million), and which he turned into a global biopharmaceuticals company employing 6,000 people in over 60 countries (amassing himself a fortune estimated at U$7 billion).

The reasons for the call quality quickly became apparent… “We’re currently on an exploration around Antarctica,” Paulsen told me, adding “as I speak to you today, we have a trail of icebergs around us.

We’ve just left Scott Island in the Southern Ocean, and it will be around a week before we get to the next island.”

Paulsen had invited a group of 60 scientists to join him on an expedition to run experiments and studies on climate change in the Antarctic.

“One of the groups ha