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“Biotech billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, 63, is the highest paid CEO in the U.S., according to Bloomberg’s Pay Index for 2015. He leads the media company’s annual index by more than $170 million. Soon-Shiong, founder and CEO of NantKWest in Culver City, Calif., received a $329.7 million pay package after the cancer-research company went public in July. It has a market value of $715.5 million, Bloomberg reports. Soon-Shiong, a physician and scientist, developed Abraxane, a drug that treats lung, pancreatic and breast cancers. He founded and sold for billions of dollars two pharmaceutical companies, American Pharmaceutical Partners and Abraxis BioScience.”
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