Dario Amodei is the CEO of Anthropic, an AI research company. Anthropic is a public benefit corporation dedicated to building steerable AI systems that people can rely on, and generating research about the opportunities and risks of AI. Claude is Anthropic’s AI assistant for tasks at any scale, and is based on Anthropic’s research into training helpful, honest, and harmless AI systems.  
 
Previously, Dario served as Vice President of Research at OpenAI, where he led the development of large AI language models like GPT-2 and GPT-3. He is also the co-inventor of reinforcement learning from human feedback, the technique that powers conversational AI systems like ChatGPT and models created by Anthropic. Before joining OpenAI, Dario worked at Google Brain as a Senior Research Scientist.  
 
Dario earned his doctorate in biophysics from Princeton University as a Hertz Fellow, and was a postdoctoral scholar at the Stanford University School of Medicine. 

Sam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, the AI research and deployment company behind ChatGPT and DALL·E. Sam was president of the early-stage startup accelerator Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019. In 2015, Sam co-founded OpenAI as a nonprofit research lab with the mission to build general-purpose artificial intelligence that benefits all humanity. The company remains governed by the nonprofit and its original charter today. 

Stanley F. Druckenmiller is Chairman and CEO of Duquesne Family Office, LLC. Mr. Druckenmiller founded Duquesne Capital Management in 1981, which he ran until he closed the firm in 2010. From 1988 to 2000, he was a Managing Director at Soros Fund Management, where he served as Lead Portfolio Manager of the Quantum Fund, Chief Investment Officer (1989-2000), and was responsible for funds with a peak asset value of $22B. In his early career, he worked at Pittsburgh National Bank and The Dreyfus Corporation.   

Mr. Druckenmiller is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of the Harlem Children’s Zone; Chairman of Blue Meridian Partners; a Board member for Memorial Sloan Kettering and the Environmental Defense Fund; on the Investment Committee of Bowdoin College; and is Co-founder and Board member of Kasparov Chess Foundation. He graduated magna cum laude from Bowdoin College with degrees in Economics and English, and holds graduate degree credits in Economics from the University of Michigan. 

Paul Tudor Jones II is founder, Co-Chairman, CIO, and the controlling principal of Tudor Investment Corporation, engaged in trading across global fixed income, equity, currency and commodity markets for an international client base. His current philanthropic service includes among many others, Robin Hood, JUST Capital Foundation, The Everglades Foundation, African Community & Conservation Foundation, and the Advisory Board of the University of Virginia’s Contemplative Sciences Center. Jones holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Virginia and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow. He and his wife, Sonia, have four adult children.  

Jamie Dimon is Chairman and CEO of J.P. Morgan, a global financial services firm with assets of $4.0 trillion. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, payments and asset management. Dimon became CEO on January 1, 2006 and one year later also became Chairman of the Board. He was named President and Chief Operating Officer upon the company’s merger with Bank One Corporation on July 1, 2004. Dimon joined Bank One as Chairman and CEO in 2000. Dimon began his career at American Express Company. Next, he served as Chief Financial Officer and then President at Commercial Credit, which made numerous acquisitions and divestitures, including acquiring Primerica Corporation in 1987 and The Travelers Corporation in 1993. Dimon served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Travelers from 1990 through 1998 while concurrently serving as Chief Operating Officer of its Smith Barney Inc. subsidiary before becoming Co-Chairman and Co-CEO of the combined brokerage following the 1997 merger of Smith Barney and Salomon Brothers. In 1998, Dimon was named President of Citigroup Inc., the global financial services company formed by the combination of Travelers Group and Citicorp. Dimon earned his bachelor’s degree from Tufts University and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. He serves on the boards of directors of a number of non-profit institutions including the Business Roundtable, Bank Policy Institute and Harvard Business School. Additionally, he serves on the executive committee of the Business Council and the Partnership for New York City, and is a member of the Financial Services Forum and Council on Foreign Relations. 

Shayne Coplan is the Founder and CEO of Polymarket, the largest decentralized prediction market. A leading figure in the crypto and blockchain ecosystem, Shayne has been active in the Ethereum community since 2014. Under his leadership, Polymarket has attracted significant global attention for enabling users to trade on the outcome of real-world events, including major political elections and market trends. 

Brad Gerstner is the Founder and CEO of Altimeter, a leading tech investment firm known for taking large, long-term positions in early super cycle public winners including Google, Facebook, and Nvidia. A former lawyer and serial founder, Brad has backed over 100 IPOs and twice earned a spot on the Forbes Midas List. He’s a notable tech and investing commentator on CNBC, X, and the BG2 Podcast. In 2025, his Invest America Act—providing $1,000 S&P 500 accounts to every newborn—was signed into law to align every citizen with the upside of capitalism. A public policy advocate and former Deputy Secretary of State of Indiana, Brad is also partnering with Stanford on a moonshot to reduce heart attack deaths by 100,000 annually.

Kenneth C. Griffin is the founder and CEO of Citadel, one of the world’s leading alternative investment firms, and the founder of Citadel Securities, a leading global market maker. A passionate philanthropist, Griffin believes that a high-quality education is the on-ramp to the American Dream, and his contributions have expanded access to education at all levels for millions of Americans. Griffin is also committed to supporting initiatives that significantly transform people’s lives by advancing breakthroughs in science and medicine. 

Philippe Laffont is the founder and portfolio manager of Coatue Management. Mr. Laffont graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991 with a B.S. in Economics and M.Sc. in Computer Science. He worked as an analyst in management consulting for McKinsey & Co. in Madrid, Spain. Mr. Laffont joined Tiger Management LLC as a research analyst in 1996. He focused on telecommunications stocks while at Tiger until he left to found Coatue in 1999. 

Condoleezza Rice is the current Director of the Hoover Institution and a Senior Fellow on Public Policy. She is the Denning Professor in Global Business and the Economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In addition, she is a founding partner of Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC, an international strategic consulting firm. From January 2005-2009, Rice served as the 66th Secretary of State of the United States. Rice also served as President George W. Bush’s National Security Advisor from January 2001-2005. In 2022, Rice became a part-owner of the Denver Broncos as part of the Walton-Penner Family Ownership Group. Rice currently serves on the boards of C3.ai, an AI software company, and Makena Capital Management, a private endowment firm. In addition, she is Vice Chair of the Board of Governors of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America and a trustee of the Aspen Institute. 

Barry Sternlicht is Chairman & CEO of Starwood Capital Group, the private alternative investment firm he formed in 1991 that is focused on global real estate, hotel management, oil and gas, and energy infrastructure. Mr. Sternlicht also serves as Chairman of Starwood Property Trust (NYSE: STWD), a leading diversified finance company and SH Hotels & Resorts, a hotel brand management company.  

For the past 30 years, Mr. Sternlicht has structured investments with an asset value of $225B+. Starwood’s investment vehicles have invested in approximately 250,000 residential units, 4,000 hotels, 100M SF of office properties, 56M SF of retail and 70,000 lots of land in residential subdivisions. The Firm currently manages $120B+ of assets on behalf of its high net worth and institutional partners with over 4,000 employees and offices in North America, Europe, and Asia.  

Barry Sternlicht received his BA, magna cum laude, with honors from Brown University and MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School. 

Kevin Warsh serves as the Shepard Family Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

He is an advisor to Duquesne Family Office and serves on the board of directors of UPS. Warsh is a member of the Group of Thirty (G30) and the Panel of Economic Advisers of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). 

Lauren Taylor Wolfe is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Impactive Capital, a $3 billion active impact investing firm. Impactive Capital helps companies allocate capital effectively and ethically to drive lasting sustainable, profitable, and valuable businesses. Before founding Impactive Capital, Lauren was a Managing Director at Blue Harbour Group, where she led investments in the technology, consumer, business, and healthcare services industries. Prior to that, she was a Portfolio Manager at SIAR Capital, where she invested in small capitalization public companies and private companies. Lauren received an MBA from The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. Magna Cum Laude from Cornell University. Lauren has served on several boards including those of Envestnet Inc and HD Supply, is on the Steering Committee of 30% Club, and is an Angel Member of 100 Women in Finance.