Shivon Zilis

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Shivon Zilis
Born
Shivon Alice Zilis[1]

February 8, 1986 (age 39)
Markham, Ontario, Canada
EducationYale University (BA)
Children4

Shivon Alice Zilis (born February 8, 1986) is a Canadian technology executive and venture capitalist.[2]

Early life and education

Zilis was born in Markham, Ontario, Canada to a Punjabi Indian mother and a Canadian father.[3] Zilis graduated from Markham's Unionville High School. She attended Yale University, graduating in 2008 with degrees in economics and philosophy. As a goaltender on Yale's ice hockey team, she became 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.[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".[6]

From 2017 to 2019, Zilis served as a project director for Tesla, Inc.'s Autopilot product and chip design team.[7]

Zilis served 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.[8][9]

Zilis joined the board of defense technology company Shield AI in September 2023.[10] She had previously written the company's term sheet for a seed round in 2016 while she was at Bloomberg Beta.[11]

Awards and Honors

In 2015, Zilis was listed on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list of venture capitalists.[12] Zilis was named among LinkedIn's 35 Under 35.[13]

Personal life

In July 2022, court documents in Travis County, Texas, revealed that Zilis and Elon Musk had twin children, a son and a daughter, in November 2021. The twins were conceived via in vitro fertilization (IVF).[14][15][16] According to a court petition to change the twins' names, Musk and Zilis listed the same address in Austin.[17] In June 2024, it was reported that she had a third child with Musk.[18][19][20][21] On February 28, 2025, Zilis announced the birth of her fourth child, a son who was conceived via IVF with Musk.[22]

References

  1. ^ Marcus, Josh (6 July 2022). "Elon Musk secretly fathered twins with Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis: report". Finance.yahoo.com – via The Independent.
  2. ^ Finn, Natalie (24 June 2024). "Who Is Shivon Zilis? Meet the Mother of 3 of Elon Musk's 12 Children". E! News.
  3. ^ "Who is Shivon Zilis, Elon Musk's partner who announced birth of their 4th child?". Hindustan Times. 1 March 2025 – via HT News Desk.
  4. ^ "Yale goalie earns honour for academic skills". YorkRegion.com. 19 March 2008.
  5. ^ Tedesco, Theresa (11 February 2015). "Hockey skills helped Canadian stickhandle on to Forbes Top 30 young investors list". Financial Post.
  6. ^ "The Current State of Machine Intelligence". Bloomberg. 11 December 2014.
  7. ^ Safronova, Valeriya (7 July 2022). "How Many Children Does Elon Musk Have?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 8 July 2022.
  8. ^ Peterson, Becky (23 March 2023). "Shivon Zilis, Musk Associate, Leaves OpenAI Board". The Information.
  9. ^ Loizos, Connie (6 July 2022). "Things get messy for Elon Musk with report about new twins he shares with Neuralink exec". TechCrunch.
  10. ^ Korn, Jennifer; Glader, Paul (22 November 2023). "OpenAI: The cast of characters of Silicon Valley's latest, juiciest upheaval". CNN.
  11. ^ Cai, Kenrick (17 July 2020). "Shield AI Rejected A Pivot To 'Selfie Drones'—Now Its Drones Are Being Used By The Military Overseas". Forbes.
  12. ^ "2015 30 Under 30: Venture Capital". Forbes. 5 January 2015.
  13. ^ Paul, Kari (6 July 2022). "Elon Musk fathered twins with one of his executives last year – report". The Guardian.
  14. ^ "Elon Musk and Neuralink exec had twins via IVF, no romance: Report". Business Insider.
  15. ^ Lerman, Rachel. "Shivon Zilis, who reportedly had twins with Elon Musk, is an AI expert". The Washington Post.
  16. ^ Isaacson, Walter (2023). Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson. Simon & Schuster. p. 414. ISBN 978-1-76142-261-4.
  17. ^ 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.
  18. ^ Roth, Emma (21 June 2024). "Elon Musk has another secret child with exec at his brain implant company". The Verge. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
  19. ^ Sacks, Hannah; Mazzeo, Esme (24 June 2024). "Elon Musk Quietly Welcomed Baby No. 12, His Third with Neuralink Corp.'s Shivon Zilis, Earlier This Year". People.
  20. ^ Grind, Kirsten; Ewing, Jack (13 September 2024). "Inside Elon Musk's Mushrooming Security Apparatus". The New York Times. Section B, page 1. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 9 January 2025. Retrieved 18 January 2025. A grand jury has indicted Mr. Overeem on a felony charge of making a terroristic threat. He is out on $200,000 bail, with his bail conditions requiring him to stay 200 yards away from Mr. Musk and Shivon Zilis, an executive at Neuralink, one of Mr. Musk's companies. Ms. Zilis is also the mother of some of Mr. Musk's children.
  21. ^ Carlson, Adam (20 January 2025). "Elon Musk Makes Rare Outing with Shivon Zilis, Mother of 3 of His Kids, as He Joins Trump in D.C." People.
  22. ^ Flam, Charna (28 February 2025). "Elon Musk Welcomes 14th Child, His Fourth Baby with Shivon Zilis". People. Retrieved 1 March 2025.