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Superyacht Vava
Superyacht Vava is a 47.30m (155.18ft) motor yacht, custom built in 1996 by Feadship in Kaag (Netherlands). This luxury vessel's sophisticated exterior design and engineering are the work of De Voogt. The yacht's interior has been designed by Robert de Nijs. She was last refitted in 2005.
Superyacht Vava has a steel hull and aluminium superstructure with a beam of 8.70m (28.54ft) and a 2.75m (9.02ft) draft.
Vava is capable of 16 knots, with a cruising speed of 15 knots from her 61,700-
Ernesto Bertarelli
Ernesto Bertarelli (born 22 September 1965) is a Swiss-
Ranked
64 in the 2010 ranking of the world's wealthiest people compiled and published by
Forbes magazine, his personal wealth is estimated at US$ 10 billion.
His father founded
Serono, a Swiss pharmaceutical company. Bertarelli became CEO and Deputy Chairman
in 1996, and with his sister Dona inherited ownership in 1998 on the death of his
father. Changing the company’s focus from pharmaceuticals to biotechnology, revenues
increased from $809 million in 1996 to $2.8 billion in 2006. The company gained fame
from its discovery of a natural hormone used in the treatment of female infertility.
Bertarelli agreeing to sell the company to Merck KGaA of Germany in January 2007
for US$13.3 billion, forming the new company Merck-
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