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
  1. https://www.taylorstrategic.com/
  2. 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.
  3. Levine, Matt (14 March 2018). "The Blood Unicorn Theranos Was Just a Fairy Tale". Bloomberg View. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  4. "David Taylor". Bloomberg. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  5. 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.
  6. https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-taylor-246252111/
  7. https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-taylor-246252111/
  8. 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.
  9. https://www.businessinsider.com/theranos-walgreens-settlement-2017-8
  10. https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/01/theranos-reaches-settlement-with-investor-partner-fund-management/
  11. https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/23/theranos-gets-100-million-in-debt-financing-to-carry-it-through-2018-with-some-caveats/
  12. O'Brien, Sarah Ashley. "Elizabeth Holmes indicted on wire fraud charges, steps down from Theranos". CNN.com. CNN. Retrieved 15 June 2018.


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