Shivon Alice Zilis
(born 8 February 1986) is a
Canadian technology executive
and venture capitalist.
Shivon Alice Zilis was born in Markham, Ontario, Canada on 8 February 1986 to Sharda N., a Punjabi Indian, and Richard Zilis, a Canadian.[2][3][4] Zilis graduated from Markham's Unionville High School.[5] 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.[6]
Career
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After graduating from Yale, Zilis started her career at IBM in New York, working in financial technologies in developing countries, especially Peru and Indonesia.[5] 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".[7]
In 2015, Zilis was listed on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list of venture capitalists.[8]
From 2017 to 2019, she served as a project director for Tesla, Inc.'s Autopilot product and chip design team.[9]
She was named among LinkedIn's 35 Under 35.[10]
Zilis serves as director of operations and special projects at Neuralink. Zilis met Elon Musk through her non-profit work at OpenAI, of which she was a board member until 2023.[11][12]
Personal life
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In July 2022, court documents in Travis County, Texas, revealed that Zilis and Elon Musk had twin children in November 2021. The twins were born via in vitro fertilization (IVF).[13][14][15] According to court documents to register the twins' names, Musk and Zilis listed the same address in Austin.[16] In June 2024, it was reported that
she had a third child with Musk
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