Anthropic's filing for blockbuster US IPO shows key executives and board
In a significant step forward, Anthropic has filed for a US initial public offering, with hopes for a mid-November listing. Amid rising interest rate concerns and investor scrutiny over AI sector stock performance, the company is backed by a formi...

Anthropic founder Dario Amodei
Here are some details about the board members and key executives at Anthropic:
Anthropic's leadership team
Name | Role | Joined | Past experience and other details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dario Amodei | Co-founder and CEO | 2021 | VP of Research at OpenAI, which he left in 2020. Senior Research Scientist at Google, which he left in 2016. |
| Daniela Amodei | Co-founder, President and Chairperson of the Board | 2021 | VP of Safety and Policy at OpenAI, which she left along with her brother, Dario. She headed risk operations at Stripe, which she left in 2018. |
| Jared Kaplan | Co-founder and Chief Science Officer | 2021 | Researcher at OpenAI, which he left in 2020. Associate professor of physics at Johns Hopkins University. |
| Tom Brown | Co-founder, Chief Compute Officer | 2021 | Research lead for GPT-3 at OpenAI. |
| Jack Clark | Co-founder and Head of Policy | 2021 | Policy and Communications Director at OpenAI. Leads The Anthropic Institute. |
| Chris Olah | Co-founder and Interpretability Research Lead | 2021 | Led interpretability research at OpenAI and previously worked as a research scientist at Google. |
| Krishna Rao | Chief Financial Officer (CFO) | 2024 | CFO at Fanatics Commerce, which he left in 2024. Previously global head of corporate and business development at Airbnb, which he left in 2021. |
| Rahul Patil | Chief Technology Officer (CTO) | 2025 | CTO of Stripe, which he left in 2024. Previously senior VP of cloud infrastructure at Oracle, which he left in 2020. |
| Sam McCandlish | Co-founder and Chief Architect | 2021 | Member of the technical staff at OpenAI, which he left in 2020. |
| Paul Smith | Chief Commercial Officer | 2025 | Special adviser at ServiceNow before joining Anthropic. |
| Ami Vora | Chief Product Officer | 2025 | VP of Product and Design at WhatsApp. Chief Product Officer at Faire. |
| Brian Israel | Chief Legal Officer | 2022 | Associate General Counsel for International Law at NASA. |
| Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar | Chief Global Affairs Officer | 2026 | Former president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former California Supreme Court justice. |
| Hannah Pritchett | Chief People Officer | 2024 | VP of People at Binti, Inc. |
| Sasha de Marigny | Chief Brand and Communications Officer | 2023 | Head of Brand and Communications at Stripe. VP of Brand and Communications at Thrive Capital. |
| Chris Ciauri | Managing Director, International | 2025 | CEO of Unily before joining Anthropic. Previously president of EMEA at Google Cloud, a role he left in 2021. |
Other board members
Name | Role | Joined | Past experience and other details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Liddell | Board member | 2026 | Former CFO of Microsoft. Deputy White House Chief of Staff during President Donald Trump's first term. |
| Vas Narasimhan | Board member | 2026 | Current CEO of Novartis. |
| Yasmin Razavi | Board member | 2023 | General Partner at Spark Capital, which has invested in Anthropic. |
| Reed Hastings | Board member | 2025 | Former chairman and co-founder of Netflix. |
Trustees who balance Anthropic's goals as a public benefit corporation
Name | Role | Joined | Past experience and other details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neil Buddy Shah | Chair of the Long-Term Benefit Trust (LTBT) | 2023 | CEO of the Clinton Health Access Initiative. |
| Richard Fontaine | Trustee | 2025 | CEO of the Center for a New American Security. |
| Christopher Stubbs | Trustee | 2026 | Experimental physicist and former dean of science at Harvard University. |
| Ben Bernanke | Trustee | 2026 | Former chair of the Federal Reserve and fellow at the Brookings Institution. |
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