Top 25 Minority Executives in Healthcare - 2016
John Kapoor
Chairman, President and CEO, Insys Therapeutics
Kapoor, 74, a billionaire investor and pharmaceutical entrepreneur, is an officer and majority owner of two publicly traded drug companies'Akorn and Insys. He has been a board member since Insys' inception in 1990. He also served as chairman and president of EJ Financial Enterprises since forming the company in 1990, and as managing partner of Kapoor-Pharma Investments, which he founded in 2000. Kapoor has a doctorate in medicinal chemistry from State University of New York at Buffalo and a Bachelor of Science in pharmacy from Bombay University in India.