Ramesh 'Sunny' Balwani's sentencing comes just weeks after disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, once described by Forbes as America's youngest female self-made billionaire, was told she would spend more than 11 years behind bars.
Balwani graduated from the University of Texas in 1990 with a degree in information systems.
Upon meeting Holmes, who had dropped out of Stanford University to pursue her ambition to launch Theranos, he quickly became enthralled by her - just as the company's investors soon would. Styling herself on her idol Steve Jobs, the famed Apple co-founder, Holmes's firm took Silicon Valley by storm on the promise of groundbreaking blood testing technology that attracted money from the likes of Rupert Murdoch and American pharmacy giant Walgreens.
He was depicted as a ruthless, power-hungry figure, as they sought to secure a conviction on a dozen charges.
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