Alan Eisenman
Overview
Eisenman is a retired Texas financial planner who invested approximately $1.2 million with his family in TheranosTheranosTheranos was a blood-testing company founded in 2003 by Elizabeth Holmes and based in Palo Alto, California, which offered retail testing with Walgreens and was valued at up to $9 billion before regulatory sanctions and criminal charges over alleged fraud in its technology and financial claims led to its dissolution in 2018.Open the full entry beginning in 2006.[1]
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Key facts
2010–2015Seeking Company Information
Eisenman said company communications ceased in 2010. He invested approximately $100,000 more in 2013, continued seeking information, and encountered further resistance when trying to sell his shares in 2015.[2]
2022Testimony on Joint Investment Decisions
At Balwani’s trial, Eisenman described assessing deals and investment decisions with his wife and communicating with Theranos on both their behalf; she did not personally testify.[3]
2023Separate Restitution Awards
The May 16, 2023 restitution order separately assigned Alan Eisenman $99,990 and Sherrie EisenmanSherrie EisenmanSherrie Eisenman is a Theranos investor and Alan Eisenman’s wife, separately recognized by a federal court as a victim of investor fraud.Open the full entry $49,995, totaling $149,985. Both were obligations of Holmes and Balwani jointly and severally; these awards do not represent all of the family’s historical investment.[4]
September 2026Restitution and Documentary Response
In September 2026, Eisenman told NBCNBCNBC (National Broadcasting Company) is an American national commercial broadcast television network. It was founded by RCA in 1926, began as a radio network and later developed television. With ABC and CBS it is one of the three traditional U.S. broadcast networks; it passed to General Electric with RCA in 1986, merged with Universal to form NBCUniversal in 2004, has been controlled by Comcast since 2011, and is one of the five networks that rotate in the White House television pool.Open the full entry News he had received no restitution from Holmes and expressed concern that You Can See Everything might portray her sympathetically.[1]
Sources
- Elizabeth Holmes to be transferred to a halfway house next year (opens in a new window)
- Holmes’ ex-boyfriend, who was Theranos exec, bullied and ignored $1.2M investor (opens in a new window)
- United States v. Balwani — Order on Sentencing, Document 1730 (opens in a new window)
- Order on Restitution, United States v. Holmes and Balwani, No. 5:18-cr-00258-EJD, Document 1760 (opens in a new window)