John Carreyrou

JOURNALISM CAREER

• Carreyrou was the first to break the scandal surrounding the failed biomedical startup Theranos and its founder, Stanford-dropout Elizabeth Holmes, in his reporting for The Wall Street Journal. 
• He is a compelling speaker who discusses the ethical lapses, the credulous media coverage, and the lax oversight that allowed Theranos to achieve a “unicorn” valuation of $9 billion, and shares with audiences the lessons that can be learned from its fall.
  
• With meticulously researched and detailed reporting, he provides insight into Theranos’s intensely charismatic, secretive, and ambitious founder, and the very real harm that resulted from her false claims. 
• In his lectures, he tells the riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron and exposes the ecosystem of investors, journalists, and regulators that allowed it to flourish.
• His reporting on corruption in the field of spine surgery led to long prison terms for a California hospital owner and a Michigan neurosurgeon. 

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

• Earlier in his career, Carreyrou was part of a Journal team that won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for its coverage of corporate scandals.
• For his extensive coverage of Theranos, he was awarded the George Polk Award for Financial Reporting, the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism in the category of beat reporting, and the Barlett & Steele Silver Award for Investigative Business Journalism. 
  
• In 2015, he won a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting with several colleagues for a series of articles exposing fraud and abuse in Medicare, the federal health program for the elderly and disabled.