Ernesto Silvio Maurizio Bertarelli (born 22 September 1965[1]) is an Italian-born Swiss billionaire businessman and philanthropist.

[14][15][16] As well as these businesses, B-Flexion,[17] which is headquartered in Geneva, with offices in London, Jersey, Boston and Dublin,[13] also manages investment holdings itself, including an allergy immunotherapy group Stallergenes-Greer,[18][19][20] Corium, Corium Pharma Solutions, a contract development and manufacturing company, and a number of asset management businesses such as Longview and Capital Four.

[22] The name of the joint initiative is Campus Biotech[23] and the site became a ‘centre of excellence in the fields of healthcare, biotechnology and life sciences’.

As part of this, the EPFL and the University of Geneva occupy some 15,000m2 of the site[24] and, in October 2013, it was announced that Campus Biotech was to be the core of a new Swiss neuroscience valley with the research groups involved in the Human Brain Project[25] and the Blue Brain Project,[26] as well as most scientists from the Center for Neuroprosthetics, moving there in 2014.

[32] Société Nautique de Genève and Bertarelli's efforts to organize the 33rd America's Cup following their 2007 victory in Alinghi were subject to numerous legal challenges by the Golden Gate Yacht Club.

[34][35] Alinghi now competes in the Extreme Sailing Series, which it most recently won in 2016, and in the summer-long, one-class D35 championship on Lake Geneva.

[38] Bertarelli and his family established a foundation in 1999 for promoting research and development in the field of male and female infertility, assisted reproduction technologies, andrology, genetics and endocrinology; supporting training, education and international and national exchanges in these areas through grants.

Some projects recently sponsored by the Bertarelli Foundation have been the research Centre for Neuroprosthetics at the EPFL in Lausanne;[39] the partnership with the British government to create the largest marine reserve in the world in Chagos,[40] in the Indian Ocean; a joint research and education program in neuroscience between Harvard Medical School and EPFL;[41] the Swiss Sailing Grants in partnership with the Swiss Sailing Federation; and the Henna Pre-School in South Africa and a partnership with the Stoke-on-Trent YMCA that was led by Kirsty Bertarelli.

[48] In December 2008, Appledore Shipbuilders launched the hull of Project55, Bertarelli's new yacht,[49] which was completed as Vava II by Devonport Engineering Consortium Ltd at Plymouth in February 2012[50]