Elizabeth Holmes
About
Entrepreneur and CEO known for being the founder of the blood-testing company Theranos. The company came under scrutiny in 2015 after the validity of their tests came into question, leading the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to call for banning her from the industry for multiple years.
Before Fame
She attended Stanford University, where she studied chemical engineering but didn't graduate. Inspired by her fear of needles, she founded Theranos with the goal of providing minimally-invasive blood-tests.
Trivia
She's credited with having more than 80 patents and her company had previously been valued at nearly $10 billion. She's related to one of the founders of Fleischmann's Yeast. She was convicted in 2022 of defrauding investors in relation to the failure of her company Theranos, and she eventually was sentenced to 11 years in prison.
Family Life
She was born to Christian Holmes IV and Noel Daoust and has a brother named Christian Holmes V. She and her parter Billy Evans have two children.
Associated With
She was named America's top Self-Made Woman by Forbes in 2015, four spots ahead of Oprah Winfrey.
