Theranos

History

Elizabeth Holmes

Elizabth Holmes, born February 3, 1984, is an American former biotechnology entrepreneur who founded Theranos in 2003 at the age of 19. Holmes was born in Washington, D.C. to her dad Christian Holmes an entrepreneur who started an energy company called Enron then moving to the government agency USAID and her mom Noel, a Congressional committee staffer (source c).

Holmes attended Stanford University in 2002 where she studied chemical engineering and worked in a laboratory as a student researcher in the School of Engineering