Zilis was born inMarkham, Ontario, Canada, to Sharda and Richard Zilis, an Indian mother and a Canadian father.[2] As an infant, she was placed with adoptive parents and spent her childhood in Canada.[3] Zilis graduated from Markham'sUnionville High School. She attendedYale University, graduating in 2008 with degrees in economics and philosophy. As a goaltender on Yale'sice hockey team, she became the school's all-time leader in goals-against average.[4]
After graduating from Yale, Zilis started her career atIBM inNew 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 ofBloomberg Beta, funded byBloomberg L.P., utilizing what she calls "machine intelligence".[6]
From 2017 to 2019, Zilis served as a project director forTesla, Inc.'sAutopilot product and chip design team.[7]
Zilis served as director of operations and special projects atNeuralink. Zilis metElon Musk through her non-profit work atOpenAI, of which she was a board member until 2023.[8][9]
Zilis joined the board of defense technology companyShield AI in September 2023.[10] She had previously written the company'sterm sheet for a seed round in 2016 while she was at Bloomberg Beta.[11]
In July 2022, court documents inTravis County, Texas, revealed that Zilis andElon Musk had twin children, a son and a daughter, in November 2021. The twins were conceived viain vitro fertilization (IVF).[14][15][16] According to a court petition to change the twins' names, Musk and Zilis listed the same address inAustin.[17]
In June 2024, it was reported that Shivon Zilis 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] The middle name 'Sekhar' was given to one of their children, after the Nobel laureateSubrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.[3]
^Grind, Kirsten; Ewing, Jack (13 September 2024)."Inside Elon Musk's Mushrooming Security Apparatus".The New York Times. Section B, page 1.ISSN0362-4331. Archived fromthe original on 9 January 2025. Retrieved18 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.
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