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The businessman born in South Africa who launched a global biotech firm and received a R2.3-billion payday | SA News


Dr Patrick Soon-Shiong is the founder of NantWorks, a conglomerate using science and technology to revolutionise healthcare, energy, and media through supercomputing, AI, and biotechnology.

The South African-born medical businessman received an almost $150 million (then R2.3 billion) payday in 2015 through a stock and options payout from NantKwest, now known as ImmunityBio.

NantKwest and ImmunityBio were both also founded by Soon-Shiong, and they adopted the latter’s name following a merger in early…

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