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Who is Shivon Zilis?

SHIVON Zilis is known for her career in the tech world and has worked with several companies over the years.

In July 2022, she made headlines after it was reported that she welcomed twins with Elon Musk.

Shivon Zilis works for Neuralink
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Shivon Zilis works for NeuralinkCredit: YouTube

Who is Shivon Zilis?

Shivon Zilis, 36, is known as one of the top executives at Neuralink, a neurotechnology company that develops implantable brain-machine interfaces.

The company was co-founded in July 2016 by Elon Musk.

Prior to Neuralink, Zilis obtained a bachelor's degree from Yale University and worked as a Project Director at Tesla.

While in college, the Ontario native played goalie on the women's ice-hockey team.

Since 2015, she has also worked as a fellow at Creative Destruction Lab, according to her .

Zilis was named on Forbes' 30 Under 30 list in 2015 and LinkedIn's 35 Under 35.

Did Shivon have children with Elon Musk?

Musk, 51, is a business magnate and investor who is the CEO of Tesla and the founder of SpaceX

On July 6, 2022, it was reported that the billionaire welcomed twins with Zilis last November.

According to court documents obtained by , the two filed a petition to change the twin's names in order to "have their father's last name and contain their mother's last name as part of their middle name."

Shivon welcomed twins with Tesla CEO Elon Musk in November 2021
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Shivon welcomed twins with Tesla CEO Elon Musk in November 2021Credit: Reuters

The petition was later approved by a judge in Austin, Texas, in May 2022.

According to Insider, the twins were born just weeks before Musk welcomed his second child with Claire Boucher, who goes by the stage name Grimes.

Musk is reportedly now the father of nine children.

How did Shivon and Elon meet?

In 2016, Zilis relocated to San Francisco after she was offered a job as an advisor at OpenAI, an artificial-intelligence research-and-deployment nonprofit that was founded by Musk.

While working there, Zilis and Musk crossed paths, and she later rose through the ranks to become one of his top executives.

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According to Insider, Zilis' could be one of the people Musk uses to run Twitter if his purchase goes through.

In April 2022, Twitter's board of directors accepted Musk's offer to buy the social media platform at $44billion, but the sale has since been halted while Musk obtains more information on the site.

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