Indeed.
He started out making a fortune parallel importing medicine from Italy to Sweden. Since then kept building a pile of money investing in variety of medical device projects.
I am sure he is not generally more happy than me, but he does have the means to enriching the amount and level of experiences in life. Strangely enough it has not change him one bit. He is still the same down to earth guy I always knew. Prefers very casual dressing and never ever brags about his achievements.
Edit: I am still a bit hang over. Spell Check corrected almost ten words in this post..