Shivon Zilis
Shivon Zilis | |
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Born | Shivon Alice Zilis[1] February 8, 1986 Markham, Ontario, Canada |
Education | Yale University (BA) |
Children | 2 |
Shivon Alice Zilis (born February 8, 1986) is a Canadian technology executive and
Early life and education
Shivon Alice Zilis was born in Markham, Ontario, Canada on 8 February 1986 to Sharda, a Punjabi Indian, and Richard, a Jewish Canadian.[2] Zilis graduated from Markham's Unionville High School.[3] She attended Yale University, graduating in 2008 with degrees in economics and philosophy. She played on Yale's ice hockey team as a goaltender, and is the school's all-time leader in goals-against average.[4]
Career
After graduating from Yale, Zilis started her career at IBM in New York, working in financial technologies in developing countries, especially Peru and Indonesia.[3] From 2012 to 2018, she was one of the founding investors and partner of Bloomberg Beta, funded by Bloomberg L.P., utilizing what she calls "machine intelligence".[5]
She was named among LinkedIn's 35 Under 35.[6] In 2015, Zilis was listed on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list of venture capitalists.[7] Zilis serves as director of operations and special projects at Neuralink and reports directly to Elon Musk.[8] Zilis met Musk through her non-profit work at OpenAI, of which she was a board member until 2023.[9][10] From 2017 to 2019, she served as a project director for Tesla, Inc.'s Autopilot product and chip design team.[11]
Personal life
In July 2022, it was revealed through the obtaining of
References
- ^ Marcus, Josh (6 July 2022). "Elon Musk secretly fathered twins with Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis: report". Finance.yahoo.com – via The Independent.
- ^ Sathian, Sanjena (29 May 2015). "Shivon Zilis, nerd-athlete investor". USA Today – via OZY.
- ^ a b Tedesco, Theresa (11 February 2015). "Hockey skills helped Canadian stickhandle on to Forbes Top 30 young investors list". Financial Post.
- ^ "Yale goalie earns honour for academic skills". YorkRegion.com. 19 March 2008.
- ^ "The Current State of Machine Intelligence". Bloomberg. 11 December 2014.
- ^ Paul, Kari (6 July 2022). "Elon Musk fathered twins with one of his executives last year – report". The Guardian.
- ^ "2015 30 Under 30: Venture Capital". Forbes. 5 January 2015.
- ^ "Elon Musk has new twins with Neuralink exec". TechCrunch. 6 July 2022. Retrieved 9 July 2022.
- ^ Peterson, Becky (23 March 2023). "Shivon Zilis, Musk Associate, Leaves OpenAI Board". The Information.
- ^ Loizos, Connie (6 July 2022). "Things get messy for Elon Musk with report about new twins he shares with Neuralink exec". TechCrunch.
- ^ ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 8 July 2022.
- ^ "Elon Musk and Neuralink exec had twins via IVF, no romance: Report". Business Insider.
- ^ Lerman, Rachel. "Shivon Zilis, who reportedly had twins with Elon Musk, is an AI expert". The Washington Post.
- ^ Black, Julia (6 July 2022). "Elon Musk had twins last year with one of his top executives". Business Insider. Archived from the original on 7 July 2022. Retrieved 9 July 2022.
- ^ "Elon Musk reveals names of his twins with Shivon Zilis". Independent. 8 September 2023.
- ^ "Inside Elon Musk's Struggle for the Future of AI". Time Magazine. 6 September 2023.