Amy Wyss
$1.98B
as of 10/04/24
About Amy Wyss
Amy Wyss's father, Swiss billionaire Hansjoerg Wyss, founded medical equipment firm Synthes in the 1970s, where she worked for years.
Johnson & Johnson acquired Synthes in 2012 for $19.7 billion in cash and stock. Amy Wyss received a portion of the proceeds from the sale.
A 2014 U.S. Senate investigation into offshore tax evasion, which did not implicate the Wyss family, revealed her fortune.
She founded the LOR Foundation in 2007 to improve the quality of life for rural communities in the rural Mountain West.
Personal stats
Citizenship
United States of AmericaSource of wealth
Medical equipmentResidence
Wilson, WyomingBirth date
01/01/71 (age 53)Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Skidmore CollegeSelf-made
inheritedAmy Wyss’s fortune is worth
33K
troy ounces of gold
30K
median U.S. household
20K
median U.S. income
0.04%
U.S. credit card volume
0.008%
GDP of the United States
0.006%
United States debt
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Wyss met her husband, Ed Jaramillo, on a chairlift in the Rockies.
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