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Evans hotel group fortune Continue Accused fake blood test grifter Elizabeth Holmes has a busy schedule this year. In addition to attending her upcoming trial for 11 criminal charges, she will marry! The lucky groom-to-be is William Billy Evans, scion of the Evans Property Hotel Group. From Brides Magazine: Maybe they mount on their shared wealth or interest in tech, as Evans is an MIT grad who works at Linked In, then Luminar Technologies, a driverless-car startup. According to Linked In, Evans stopped working there in January - maybe spending more time with his bride while he still could? Holmes is charged with 11 criminal charges, including wire fraud and conspiracy, and could face jail time. Holmes pleaded guilty. While Holmes was awaiting trial, the couple had lived large in a luxury apartment in San Francisco, according to Vanity Fair, and they even attended Burning Man together just days before Theranos employees were told the company was officially closed. In their San Francisco home, they coparent Holmes's wolf, Balto. As it turns out, Balto is really just a Siberian husky. For everyone asking about Holmes' social media. It's personal. But here are a few screenshots of her and her fiance we found online. (I personally find it crazy that she was charged with 11 charges, thousands of people's lives were compromised, and she was as happy as possible.) pic.twitter.com/6nYfjltLt4 - Nick Bilton (@nickbilton) February 21, 2019 Image by Glenn Fawcett – Cropped version of from Public Domain, Link Ask most Apple Watch users about their biggest beef with the most popular wearable in tech today and many will likely answer with the same beef had by many users of wirelessly charged devices. It's just not so simple as making sure your wireless charger is lined up properly with your device to get a stable,... READ THE REST This week in machine-thinking news, a Harvard professor and his students raised $14 million to create artificial intelligence so smart that even hackers couldn't crack it. Meanwhile, reports from the White House show that the federal government is moving closer to enacting their directives on how agencies should regulate AI in the future. And if... READ THE REST Back when you used to divide the time between home and office, it really isn't usually a big deal. But now that you spend hours after hours tapping away at that one laptop all day and all night long, perhaps you should start paying attention to just how freakin' hot thing it is getting. In... READ THE REST Former CEO of Theranos Corporation Elizabeth HolmesHolmes backstage at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco in 2014BornElizabeth Anne (1984-02-03) February 3, 1984 (age 36)Washington, DC, U.S. Citizenship UniversityAmericanEducationStanford (dropout) Tech startup OccupationHealth OccupationHealth and former CEO of Billy Evans (m. 2019) Partner Ramesh Balwani (2003-2016) Elizabeth Anne Holmes (born February 3, 1984)[1] is an American business woman who founded and is the CEO of Theranos, a now de-existent medical technology company. Theranos soared in price after the company claimed to have revolutionized blood tests by developing testing methods that could use surprisingly small volumes of blood, such as from one finger. [3] By 2015, Forbes had ranked Holmes as the youngest and wealthiest female self-made billionaire in america, on the basis of her company's $9 billion value. [4] The following year, following revelations of potential fraud on Theranos' claims, Forbes revised its published estimate of Holmes' net worth to 0,[5] and Fortune named her one of the world's most disappointing Leaders. [6] Theranos' decline began in 2015, when a series of press and regulatory investigations revealed doubts about the company's technology claims and whether Holmes had misled investors and the government. In 2018, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission accused Theranos and Holmes of deceiving investors by rigging large through false or exaggerated claims about the accuracy of the company's blood test technology; Holmes settled the allegations by paying a $500,000 fine, returning 18.9 million shares to the company, re giving up control of theranos' voting rights and being banned from being an officer or director of a public company for ten years. [7] In June 2018, a federal grand jury indicted Holmes and former Theranos executive Ramesh Balwani on nine counts of wire fraud and two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud for distributing blood tests with false results to consumers. [9] A trial will begin in March 2021. [10] Theranos' credibility was partly due to Holmes' personal relationships and his ability to recruit the support of influences including Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, James Mattis and Betsy DeVos. Holmes had a secret romantic relationship with her chief executive, Ramesh Balwani. [11] After the fall of Theranos, she married hotel heir Billy Evans. Holmes' career, the rise and fall of her company, and the fallout that followed were the subject of a book, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, by Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou, and an HBO documentary, The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley. Elizabeth Holmes was born in Washington, D.C.[12] Her father, Christian Rasmus Holmes IV, was vice president at Enron, an energy company, after which he held executive positions in government agencies such as USAID, EPA, and USTDA. [14] Her mother, Noel Anne (Daoust), was a member of the Congressional committee. [12] Holmes attended St. John's in Houston. [16] During high school, she was interested in computer programming and announced she started the first business selling C++ compiler to Chinese universities. [17] Her parents arranged home tutoring, and partly through high school, Holmes began attending Stanford University's Summer Speaking Language program. [12] In 2002, Holmes attended Stanford, where she studied chemical engineering and worked as a student researcher and laboratory assistant at the School of Engineering. [15] After finishing her first year, Holmes worked in a laboratory at Singapore's Genetic Institute and tested severe acute respiratory syndrome through the collection of blood samples with a syringe. [19] She filed her first patent application on a wearable drug delivery patch in 2003. [21] In March 2004, she dropped out of Stanford's School of Engineering and used her tuition as a seed grant for a consumer healthcare technology company. [22] Theranos Founding Holmes founded Real-Time Cures in Palo Alto, California, to democratize health care. [24][25] Holmes described her fear of needles as a motivation and sought to perform a blood test in only a small amount of blood. [23] When Holmes originally came up with the idea to reap large amounts of data from a few drops of finger-derived blood for medical professor Phyllis Gardner at Stanford, Gardner replied, I don't think your idea will work, explaining that it's impossible to do what Holmes claims can be done. Several other specialist medical professors have told Holmes the same thing. [14] However, Holmes did not stop, and she succeeded in bringing her mentor and dean at the School of Engineering, Channing Robertson, to support her idea. [14] In 2003, Holmes renamed the company Theranos (a collage of therapy and diagnosis). [27] Robertson became the company's first board member and introduced Holmes to venture capitalists. [15] Holmes was a fan of Apple founder Steve Jobs, and deliberately copied his style, regularly wearing a black turtle neck sweater, as Jobs did. [28] Holmes claimed her mother wore black turtlenecks when she was young,[29] but in fact, an employee introduced her to Jobs' famous Issey Miyake tortoises in 2007. [30] In most public appearances, she speaks in a deep baritone voice, although a former colleague of Theranos later claimed he heard her use the voice of a typical woman in her twenties to greet him when he was new. [18] (page 97)[31] However, her family still claims that her baritone voice is authentic. [33] Funding and expansion In December 2004, Holmes raised $6 million to fund the company. [15] Arrival in 2010, Theranos had more than $92 million in venture capital. [20] In July 2011, Holmes was introduced to former secretary of state George Shultz. After a meeting, he joined the Theranos board of directors. [34] Holmes was recognized as the most illustrious board of directors in U.S. corporate history for the next three years. [35] Holmes runs Theranos in stealth mode without a press release or the company's website until September 2013, when the company announced a partnership with Walgreens to launch in- store blood sample collection centers. [37] Media attention increased in 2014, when Holmes appeared on the covers of Fortune, Forbes, T: The New York Times Style Magazine and Inc.[38] Forbes recognized Holmes as the world's youngest self-made billionaire and ranked her #110 on the Forbes 400 in 2014. [39] Theranos was valued at $9 billion and raised more than $400 million in venture capital. [40] By the end of 2014, her name appeared on 18 U.S. patents and 66 foreign patents. [21] In 2015, Holmes established agreements with the Cleveland Clinic, Capital BlueCross, and AmeriHealth Caritas to use Theranos technology. [20] The fall of John Carreyrou of The Wall Street Journal initiated a months-long undercover investigation into Theranos after he received a tip from a medical professional who thought the Edison blood test device seemed suspicious. [18] Carreyrou spoke to former whistleblowers and obtained company documents. When Holmes learned of the investigation, she initiated a campaign through her attorney David Boies to prevent Carreyrou from publishing, including legal and financial threats against both the Journal and whistleblowers.

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