San Francisco, California: Elizabeth Holmes is an American former biotechnology entrepreneur and convicted fraudster. She founded a now-defunct health technology company “Theranos” in 2003 where she served as the chief executive officer.

She was named the youngest and wealthiest self-made female billionaire in America in Forbes magazine on the basis of a $9 billion valuation of her company in 2015.

She was named by Fortune in its feature article on The World’s 19 Most Disappointing Leaders.

She was sentenced to serve 11 years and 3 months in prison in November 2022 because of convicting of defrauding investors and acquitted of defrauding patients.

Elizabeth Holmes’s full name is Elizabeth Anne Holmes. She was born on 3 February 1984 in Washington, D.C., United States to Christian Rasmus Holmes IV (Father) and Noel Anne (Mother).

Her father was a vice president at Enron (an energy company that later went bankrupt after an accounting fraud scandal). Her mother worked as a congressional committee staffer.

Her father held executive positions in government agencies such as the EPA, USTDA, and USAID. Elizabeth’s mother was born in Georgia. Her mother has French Canadian ancestry. Elizabeth’s father is of part Danish ancestry.

Thus, Elizabeth’s ethnicity is mixed. Elizabeth graduated from St. John’s School in Houston. Her interest was so high in computer programming that’s why she started her first business selling C++ compilers to Chinese universities.

She was pursuing her bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Stanford University but later she dropped out of university. She worked in the School of Engineering as a student researcher and laboratory assistant. 

She also worked in a laboratory at the Genome Institute of Singapore. She tested for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus through the collection of blood sampled with syringes.

Elizabeth was raped at Stanford’s School in 2003 that’s why she dropped out of Stanford’s School of Engineering in March 2004 and used her tuition money for a consumer healthcare technology company as seed funding.

She filed the first patent application on a wearable drug-delivery patch in 2003. 

Elizabeth’s zodiac sign is Aquarius. She belongs to a Christian family that’s why she follows the Christianity religion.

Her nationality is American. Her height is 5 feet 6 inches. Her weight is 58 kg. She is 38 years old as of 2023. 

Elizabeth was in a relationship with technology entrepreneur Ramesh Balwani. He is a Pakistani-born Hindu who immigrated to India and the United States.

Elizabeth met him in 2002. At that time she was 18 years old and he was 19 years old. Later he married another woman and divorced her in 2002.

Then Balwani got involved with Elizabeth in 2003. They started to live together in 2005 in an apartment.

They ran the Theranos company together. Balwani left her company Theranos in 2016 and she stated that she fired him.

In 2019, Elizabeth got engaged to William “Billy’ Evans. They got married in mid-2019* in a private ceremony.

They live in San Francisco. This couple is blessed with a son who was born on 10 July 2021. Their son’s name is William Holmes Evans.

Currently, she is pregnant with their second child. She was given time to deliver their second child before going to prison. 

Elizabeth’s net worth was reported as $4.5 billion but later it was reported that her net worth was $0. 

FAQs

Q.1 Who is Elizabeth Holmes?

Ans. Elizabeth Holmes is an American former biotechnology entrepreneur and convicted fraudster.

Q.2 How old is Elizabeth Holmes?

Ans. 38 Years Old

Q.3 Who is Elizabeth Holmes’s husband?

Ans. William “Billy’ Evans

Q.4 Who is Elizabeth Holmes’s son?

Ans. William Holmes Evans

Q.5 Who are Elizabeth Holmes’s parents?

Ans. Christian Rasmus Holmes IV (Father) and Noel Anne (Mother)