Elizabeth Holmes is an American former biotechnology entrepreneur and businesswoman who has had a talent for doing revolution since her childhood. During her high school days, She programmed a software named C++ compilers (It is a computer program that translates computer code written in one programming language into another language) and sell it to Chinese Universities. It was quite interesting. Yeah! After that, she started working in laboratories where she successfully tested for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-1) through the collection of blood samples with syringes and filed her patent on a wearable drug-delivery patch in 2003. She then established the health technology company and named Theranos which means a portmanteau of "therapy" and "diagnosis". Later, the company claimed to have revolutionized blood testing by developing methods that could use surprisingly small volumes of blood, such as from a fingerpicks.
Unfortunately, the French-American journalist and writer who worked for The Wall Street Journal got a tip from a medical expert who thought the her blood-testing device seemed suspicious. After that, the company faces many critical and legal issues. Finally, she was found guilty on four counts of defrauding investors on January 3, 2022. Currently, she is awaiting sentencing which is scheduled for September 26, 2022.
Let's see what news comes in the future and how many years she will be in prison and how much she should fine for those charges. Until then stay with us for new updates. If you want to know more about her, you can scroll down below.
Early Life
Elizabeth Holmes was born in 1984 to her parents. She experienced her childhood in Washington, D.C., United States. She holds American nationality and belongs to mixed ethnicity. Currently, she is aged 37 years old and she always enjoyed her birthday on February 3 of every year. Similarly, her parents are Christian Rasmus Holmes IV and Noel Anne Daoust. Her father is a vice president at Enron until the company went bankrupt after an accounting fraud scandal while her mother worked as a Congressional committee staffer. Also, she has a brother named Christian Holmes who worked in executive positions in government agencies such as USAID, the EPA, and USTDA.
For education, she went to St. John's School in Houston where she programed the C++ compilers as she was interested in computer programming in her childhood and sell them to Chinese universities. After that, she attended Standford University where she studied chemical engineering and worked as a student researcher and laboratory assistant in the School of Engineering. Shen then went to work in a laboratory at the Genome Institute of Singapore where she tested for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-1) through the collection of blood samples with syringes and successfully filed her first patent application on a wearable drug-delivery patch in 2003. After that, she dropped out the college and started seed funding for a consumer healthcare technology company.
Personal Life
Elizabeth Holmes is happily married to her boyfriend named William Evans who is an heir to Evans Hotels Groups. The information regarding how they met is not public yet. However, the couple engaged in 2019 and later exchanged their wedding vows at the end of the same year in a private ceremony. Together, the couple welcomed their first child in July 2021. Currently, she is on bail and awaiting sentencing which is scheduled for September 26, 2022.
Previously, she was in a loving relationship with Ramesh Balwani who is an entrepreneur by profession. The lovebirds first met in 2002 when she was just 18 years old. He divorced his previous wife because of her and they stay together since 2005. Unfortunately, the relationship ended in 2016 upon he left Theranos. The reason behind his departure is not public yet but some sources said that she fired him. After that, she accused him of being controlling and even said that he berated and sexually abuse her many time during they are living together.
Net Worth
Elizabeth Holmes had served as CEO of Theranos, a health technology company. However, her company has faced a major loss after she confessed that Theranos technology is a fraud and she has gone bankrupt. Thus, her current net worth is said to be $0.
Before that, she accumulated a net worth of $4.5 billion from her company. So, she was listed as one of the richest self-made women at that time but now she has nothing left in her bank account after she has gone bankrupt. She lost everything which she earned from her company because her company failed the basic inspection test.
Body Measurement
Elizabeth Holmes has glamorous body figures with a height of 5 feet 6½ inches and she weighs around 65 Kg. Similarly, she has a pair of blue eyes and her hair is light brown. Further, her other body information is not public yet. In the case of disclosure, we will let you know.
