Channing Rex Robertson is Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering at

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. He received his

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from Stanford under the supervision of

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. He joined the faculty of Stanford in 1970, and served as the Ruth G. and

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Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Faculty & Academic Affairs in the

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there. In 2000, he was featured in a special issue of '' Upside'', entitled "100 People Who Have Changed the World". He is a founding fellow of the

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. He retired from Stanford in 2012 to join the

Theranos Theranos Inc. () was an American privately held corporation that was touted as a breakthrough health technology company. Founded in 2003 by then 19-year-old Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos raised more than US$700 million from venture capitalists and ...

board of directors, becoming an emeritus professor. Since his active role in the Theranos scandal, he is no longer teaching classes in the School of Engineering.

Theranos

Robertson taught

founder

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when she was a student at Stanford, and he went on to become the company's first board member. He convinced Ian Gibbons to work for Theranos in 2005. In 2017, Theranos named him the co-leader of their technology advisory board. Even as Theranos was coming under growing scrutiny, as of May 2018, Robertson still believed the company was successful in developing novel

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ing technology. According to lawyer Reed Kathrein, who sued Theranos on behalf of some of its former investors, the company only paid Robertson to lend itself credibility.

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