Henri Termeer was one of the first of a pioneering group of business executives who built a disparate group of fledgling companies into a biotech industry that has driven decades of therapeutic innovation. During a 28year career at Genzyme including 26 years as CEO he created a process of drug development that for the first time was patientcentered. He also helped forge biotechs public policy agenda and inspired a generation of entrepreneurs to take on large and important challenges. An extrao