Shivon Zilis
Director Of Operations And Special Projects
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShivon Zilis is a seasoned leader in machine intelligence with 12 years of experience building bridges between research, startups, and industry from San Francisco. As Director of Operations and Special Projects at Neuralink and a long-standing Board Member and early advisor to OpenAI, she combines operational rigor with deep domain expertise in AI strategy and commercialization. Her background spans venture investing at Bloomberg Beta, hands-on AI program leadership at Tesla (Autopilot and chip teams), and support for AI startups through Creative Destruction Lab, reflecting a rare mix of corporate, startup, and investor perspectives. She has shaped research and policy ecosystems via board roles at Amii and the Vector Institute and brings a talent for translating cutting-edge ML into real-world products and businesses. Notably, Shivon has focused investments and advisory work on industry-specific AI applications—agriculture, health, logistics—underscoring a practical, impact-driven approach to machine intelligence for good.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Arts at Yale University
Github Skills (2)
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Github contributions (1)
Bloomberg-Beta/Manual
Nov 2013 - Dec 2014
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