| Net Worth: | $600 Million |
| Date of Birth: | 1950-03-31 |
| Gender: | Male |
| Profession: | Businessperson |
| Nationality: | United States of America |
Arthur Levinson Net Worth and Salary: Arthur Levinson is an American businessman who has a net worth of $600 million. Arthur is best-known for being the Chairman of Apple Inc., the CEO of Calico and the former Chairman and CEO of Genentech, a biotechnology corporation.
He was born Arthur D. Levinson on March 31, 1950 in Seattle, Washington. He earned his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington in 1972 and five years later completed his PhD in biochemistry from Princeton University. After spending some time working at the Department of Microbiology at the University of California, San Francisco, he joined Genentech in 1980. In 1989 he became the company’s Vice President of Research Technology. He eventually was promoted to CEO, a role he served from 1995 until 2009. He served as company Chairman from 1999 to 2014.
Apple Board: Arthur has been a board member of Apple since 2000. In 2001 he was promoted to board Chairman, a role he currently holds. His salary for the position is $557,000 per year. He has also been rewarded with around 1.15 million shares of Apple over the last two decades. At recent share prices, those share shave been worth $250 – $350 million. As of this writing he is the 196th largest shareholder in Apple.
Levinson has also served on the board of directors of F. Hoffmann-La Roche, NGM Biopharmaceuticals, Amyris Biotechnologies and the Broad Institute. He sits on several philanthropic boards, including as one of the Scientific Consultants of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and other of the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research, as well as the Advisory Council for the Princeton University Department of Molecular Biology and on the Advisory Council for the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics.