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Jeffrey M . Leiden is CEO of Vertex Pharmaceuticals . The company was founded in 1989 and currently employs 1800 people and last year turned a profit of $ 1.6bn . Leiden is a scientist and physician with a degree from the University of Chicago . For much of his career , he worked as a molecular biologist and cardiologist and he spent the last three decades working to improve the pharmaceutical and biotech industries . Leiden joined Vertex in 2000 and last year he took home $ 28.1mn . 32 November 2017