Genzyme CEO Nets $9.3 Million From Options

In the past few days, Genzyme CEO Henri Termeer exercised options worth about $15.4 million on the open market, netting some $9.3 million from the series of transactions, according to a form filed with the SEC today. From the filing, it looks like that leaves Termeer owning some 631,000 shares directly, and no more options. Genzyme (NASDAQ: [[ticker:GENZ]]) closed today at $75.97, near its one-year high of $76.90.

Author: Rebecca Zacks

Rebecca is Xconomy's co-founder. She was previously the managing editor of Physician's First Watch, a daily e-newsletter from the publishers of New England Journal of Medicine. Before helping launch First Watch, she spent a decade covering innovation for Technology Review, Scientific American, and Discover Magazine's TV show. In 2005-2006 she was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. Rebecca holds a bachelor's degree in biology from Brown University and a master's in science journalism from Boston University.