David Taylor (attorney)
David Taylor is an American attorney and the founder of Taylor Strategic PC, a crisis management law firm.[1] From 2016 to 2018, Taylor was General Counsel and ultimately CEO of Theranos, a privately-held health technology company known for its false claims to have devised revolutionary blood tests using very small amounts of blood.[2][3]
Education
He received a bachelor's degree from Williams College and a Juris Doctor from the UC Berkeley School of Law.[4]
Career
Prior to joining Theranos, Taylor worked at Munger, Tolles & Olson, where he received the ACLU Foundation of Southern California's Humanitarian Award in June 2015 and was part of a team that won the California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year award in March 2016.[5] He previously practiced at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia and Williams & Connolly LLP.[6]
Taylor joined Theranos in May 2016 as Senior Litigation Counsel and became General Counsel in November 2016.[7] In that role, he oversaw the settling of charges against the company levied by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Arizona Attorney General.[8] Also under his watch, Theranos resolved a $140 million lawsuit brought by Walgreens (its former commercial partner)[9] and a $96.1 million lawsuit brought by an investor,[10] and secured a $100 million debt facility from Fortress Investment Group.[11] Taylor became Theranos' CEO in June 2018 when founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes stepped down. Holmes' resignation came after she was charged with defrauding Theranos investors and patients.[12]
References
- https://www.taylorstrategic.com/
- John Carreyrou (21 May 2018). Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1-5247-3166-3.
- Levine, Matt (14 March 2018). "The Blood Unicorn Theranos Was Just a Fairy Tale". Bloomberg View. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
- "David Taylor". Bloomberg. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
- Spiezio, Caroline (June 18, 2018). "Meet David Taylor, the Theranos GC and Former Munger Associate Who Just Became the Troubled Company's CEO". Retrieved 31 December 2018.
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-taylor-246252111/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-taylor-246252111/
- Spiezio, Caroline (June 18, 2018). "Meet David Taylor, the Theranos GC and Former Munger Associate Who Just Became the Troubled Company's CEO". Retrieved 19 June 2018.
- https://www.businessinsider.com/theranos-walgreens-settlement-2017-8
- https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/01/theranos-reaches-settlement-with-investor-partner-fund-management/
- https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/23/theranos-gets-100-million-in-debt-financing-to-carry-it-through-2018-with-some-caveats/
- O'Brien, Sarah Ashley. "Elizabeth Holmes indicted on wire fraud charges, steps down from Theranos". CNN.com. CNN. Retrieved 15 June 2018.