Chief in AI 100 Knowledge Graph Ontology
type: Ontology
description: Local terms for modeling the Chief in AI 100 honoree directory: honoree categories, recognition tiers, and category membership.
label: Chief in AI 100 Ontology
comment: Base class for the seven honoree categories, subclasses per category, and properties for tier and category membership.

Honoree Category
type: Class
comment: One of the seven top-level categories the Chief in AI 100 list is organized into.

AI Governance Policy & Responsible AI
type: Class
subclass of: Honoree Category

AI Investors
type: Class
subclass of: Honoree Category

AI Research & Academic Leaders
type: Class
subclass of: Honoree Category

AI Startup Founders & CEOs
type: Class
subclass of: Honoree Category

Big Tech AI Leadership
type: Class
subclass of: Honoree Category

Enterprise Chief AI Officers
type: Class
subclass of: Honoree Category

Frontier & Foundation Models
type: Class
subclass of: Honoree Category

honoree count
type: Property
comment: Number of honorees listed under a given honoree category.
domain: Honoree Category
range: integer

in category
type: Property
comment: Links an honoree (schema:Person) to the honoree category they are listed under.
domain: Person
range: Honoree Category

category has honoree
type: Property
comment: Inverse of :inCategory - links a honoree category to a member honoree.
domain: Honoree Category
range: Person
inverse of: in category

honoree tier
type: Property
comment: Links an honoree to their Chief in AI 100 recognition tier (Icon, Anchor, or Builder).
domain: Person
range: Recognition Tier

Recognition Tier
type: Class
comment: One of the three Chief in AI 100 recognition tiers: Icon, Anchor, Builder.

Icon
type: Recognition Tier
description: The highest recognition tier for a Chief in AI 100 honoree, denoting a defining, field-shaping figure.

Anchor
type: Recognition Tier
description: A recognition tier for a Chief in AI 100 honoree denoting an established, high-influence leader.

Builder
type: Recognition Tier
description: A recognition tier for a Chief in AI 100 honoree denoting a hands-on operator or technical leader driving execution.

AI Builders Network
type: Organization

Chief in AI
type: Organization

AMD
type: Organization

Abridge
type: Organization

Accenture
type: Organization

Adaption Labs
type: Organization

Air Street Capital
type: Organization

Amazon Web Services
type: Organization

American Express
type: Organization

Andreessen Horowitz
type: Organization

Anthropic
type: Organization

Anysphere
type: Organization

Apple
type: Organization

BMO Financial Group
type: Organization

California Institute of Technology
type: Organization

Carnegie Mellon University
type: Organization

Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Georgetown University
type: Organization

Cognition
type: Organization

Cohere
type: Organization

Colgate-Palmolive
type: Organization

Conviction
type: Organization

Cowboy Ventures
type: Organization

Credo AI
type: Organization

Databricks
type: Organization

Decagon
type: Organization

DeepLearning.AI
type: Organization

Dell Technologies
type: Organization

Digital Rights Foundation
type: Organization

Dulo Technologies
type: Organization

ELLIS Alicante
type: Organization

ElevenLabs
type: Organization

EliseAI
type: Organization

Expedia Group
type: Organization

FPV Ventures
type: Organization

Fireworks
type: Organization

French Ministry for Foreign Affairs
type: Organization

General Catalyst
type: Organization

Glasswing Ventures
type: Organization

Glean
type: Organization

Goldman Sachs
type: Organization

Google DeepMind
type: Organization

Harvey
type: Organization

Humane Intelligence PBC
type: Organization

Institute for Advanced Study
type: Organization

International Telecommunication Union
type: Organization

JPMorganChase
type: Organization

Khosla Ventures
type: Organization

Lelapa AI
type: Organization

Luminance
type: Organization

MIT Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health
type: Organization

MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
type: Organization

Mass General Brigham
type: Organization

Mastercard
type: Organization

McMillanAI
type: Organization

Mercedes-Benz Group
type: Organization

Meta Platforms
type: Organization

Microsoft
type: Organization

Mila
type: Organization

Mistral AI
type: Organization

Monte Carlo
type: Organization

NVIDIA
type: Organization

OpenAI
type: Organization

Paramount
type: Organization

PepsiCo
type: Organization

Perplexity
type: Organization

Pigment
type: Organization

Pika
type: Organization

Runway
type: Organization

S&P Global
type: Organization

SAP
type: Organization

Safe Superintelligence
type: Organization

Salesforce
type: Organization

Schneider Electric
type: Organization

Scribe
type: Organization

Sequoia Capital
type: Organization

Sierra
type: Organization

Stanford University
type: Organization

Thinking Machines Lab
type: Organization

Together AI
type: Organization

UK AI Security Institute
type: Organization

United States Department of Energy
type: Organization

University of California, Berkeley
type: Organization

University of Toronto
type: Organization

Walmart
type: Organization

World Labs
type: Organization

Writer
type: Organization

eBay
type: Organization

AI Governance Policy & Responsible AI
description: Executives and public-interest leaders shaping AI governance, safety policy and responsible-AI practice.
honoree count: 9
is part of: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/#
category has honoree: Alondra Nelson
category has honoree: Clara Chappaz
category has honoree: Doreen Bogdan-Martin
category has honoree: Helen Toner
category has honoree: Jade Leung
category has honoree: Nighat Dad
category has honoree: Rumman Chowdhury
category has honoree: Yoshua Bengio
category has honoree: Zico Kolter

AI Investors
description: Venture investors whose capital and theses shape which AI companies scale.
honoree count: 10
is part of: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/#
category has honoree: Aileen Lee
category has honoree: Hemant Taneja
category has honoree: Jennifer Li
category has honoree: Martin Casado
category has honoree: Nathan Benaich
category has honoree: Pegah Ebrahimi
category has honoree: Rudina Seseri
category has honoree: Sarah Guo
category has honoree: Sonya Huang
category has honoree: Vinod Khosla

AI Research & Academic Leaders
description: University and lab researchers advancing the scientific foundations of AI.
honoree count: 12
is part of: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/#
category has honoree: Anca Dragan
category has honoree: Andrew Ng
category has honoree: Anima Anandkumar
category has honoree: Chelsea Finn
category has honoree: Daniela Rus
category has honoree: Geoffrey Hinton
category has honoree: Nuria Oliver
category has honoree: Percy Liang
category has honoree: Pieter Abbeel
category has honoree: Regina Barzilay
category has honoree: Sebastian Thrun
category has honoree: Yejin Choi

AI Startup Founders & CEOs
description: Founders and CEOs building category-defining AI-native startups.
honoree count: 20
is part of: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/#
category has honoree: Arvind Jain
category has honoree: Barr Moses
category has honoree: Bret Taylor
category has honoree: Cristóbal Valenzuela
category has honoree: Demi Guo
category has honoree: Eleanor Lightbody
category has honoree: Eléonore Crespo
category has honoree: Jennifer Smith
category has honoree: Jesse Zhang
category has honoree: Lin Qiao
category has honoree: Mati Staniszewski
category has honoree: May Habib
category has honoree: Michael Truell
category has honoree: Minna Song
category has honoree: Navrina Singh
category has honoree: Pelonomi Moiloa
category has honoree: Scott Wu
category has honoree: Shiv Rao
category has honoree: Vipul Ved Prakash
category has honoree: Winston Weinberg

Big Tech AI Leadership
description: Executives leading AI strategy and engineering inside the largest technology companies.
honoree count: 15
is part of: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/#
category has honoree: Ali Ghodsi
category has honoree: Amar Subramanya
category has honoree: Clara Shih
category has honoree: Fidji Simo
category has honoree: Jensen Huang
category has honoree: Jonathan Ross
category has honoree: Kari Briski
category has honoree: Kevin Scott
category has honoree: Koray Kavukcuoglu
category has honoree: Lila Ibrahim
category has honoree: Lisa Su
category has honoree: Matt Garman
category has honoree: Sarah Bird
category has honoree: Silvio Savarese
category has honoree: Swami Sivasubramanian

Enterprise Chief AI Officers
description: Chief AI Officers and equivalent enterprise leaders deploying AI at scale inside large, often regulated, companies.
honoree count: 20
is part of: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/#
category has honoree: Athina Kanioura
category has honoree: Barak Turovsky
category has honoree: Berta Rodriguez-Hervas
category has honoree: Bhavesh Dayalji
category has honoree: Daniel Danker
category has honoree: Diana Schildhouse
category has honoree: Greg Ulrich
category has honoree: Helena Fu
category has honoree: Jane Moran
category has honoree: Jeff McMillan
category has honoree: John Roese
category has honoree: Katrin Lehmann
category has honoree: Kristin Milchanowski
category has honoree: Lan Guan
category has honoree: Marco Argenti
category has honoree: Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov
category has honoree: Philipp Herzig
category has honoree: Philippe Rambach
category has honoree: Teresa Heitsenrether
category has honoree: Xavier Amatriain

Frontier & Foundation Models
description: Founders and scientists building the frontier foundation-model labs.
honoree count: 14
is part of: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/#
category has honoree: Aidan Gomez
category has honoree: Aravind Srinivas
category has honoree: Arthur Mensch
category has honoree: Daniela Amodei
category has honoree: Dario Amodei
category has honoree: Demis Hassabis
category has honoree: Fei-Fei Li
category has honoree: Greg Brockman
category has honoree: Ilya Sutskever
category has honoree: Jakub Pachocki
category has honoree: Joelle Pineau
category has honoree: Mira Murati
category has honoree: Sam Altman
category has honoree: Sara Hooker

Alondra Nelson
type: Person
job title: Harold F. Linder Professor, Institute for Advanced Study
affiliation: Institute for Advanced Study
in category: AI Governance Policy & Responsible AI
honoree tier: Anchor
description: Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and architect of the White House Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights (as deputy assistant to the President and acting director of OSTP). A premier US science-policy leader and TIME100 AI honoree.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/alondra-nelson

Clara Chappaz
type: Person
job title: Ambassador for Digital Affairs & AI, French Ministry for Foreign Affairs
affiliation: French Ministry for Foreign Affairs
in category: AI Governance Policy & Responsible AI
honoree tier: Anchor
description: France's Ambassador for Digital Affairs and Artificial Intelligence since December 2025, and previously the country's first AI minister - Minister Delegate for AI and Digital Affairs until October 2025. A TIME100 AI honoree who came to government from leading La French Tech; in office she launched INESIA, France's AI evaluation and safety institute, and the Dare AI plan. A central figure on the European AI-summit circuit.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/clara-chappaz

Doreen Bogdan-Martin
type: Person
job title: Secretary-General, ITU (UN)
affiliation: International Telecommunication Union
in category: AI Governance Policy & Responsible AI
honoree tier: Icon
description: Secretary-General of the ITU (the UN's digital agency) - the first woman to lead it - and a driving force behind the UN's push to put AI capacity and governance on the global agenda. Hosts and keynotes the AI for Good Global Summit.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/doreen-bogdan-martin

Helen Toner
type: Person
job title: Executive Director, CSET (Georgetown)
affiliation: Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Georgetown University
in category: AI Governance Policy & Responsible AI
honoree tier: Anchor
description: Executive director of Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), one of the most influential US AI-policy analysts and a former OpenAI board member. A frequent Congressional witness on frontier AI.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/helen-toner

Jade Leung
type: Person
job title: CTO / PM AI adviser, UK AI Security Institute
affiliation: UK AI Security Institute
in category: AI Governance Policy & Responsible AI
honoree tier: Builder
description: CTO of the UK AI Security Institute and an AI adviser to the Prime Minister, designing frontier-model evaluations for the UK government. Previously led governance at OpenAI; a RSAC 2026 speaker.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/jade-leung

Nighat Dad
type: Person
job title: Founder & Executive Director, Digital Rights Foundation
affiliation: Digital Rights Foundation
in category: AI Governance Policy & Responsible AI
honoree tier: Anchor
description: Founder and executive director of the Digital Rights Foundation and a former member of the UN Secretary-General's High-Level Advisory Body on AI - a leading Global-South voice on digital rights and AI governance, and a member of Meta's Oversight Board. A HumanX 2026 speaker.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/nighat-dad

Rumman Chowdhury
type: Person
job title: CEO & Founder, Humane Intelligence PBC
affiliation: Humane Intelligence PBC
in category: AI Governance Policy & Responsible AI
honoree tier: Anchor
description: Founder of Humane Intelligence - now Distinguished Advisor to the nonprofit and CEO of its spinoff Humane Intelligence PBC - and a former US Science Envoy for AI. A pioneer of algorithmic auditing and AI red-teaming (ex-Twitter META lead); one of the most-booked responsible-AI keynote speakers, headlining AI for Good 2026.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/rumman-chowdhury

Yoshua Bengio
type: Person
job title: Founder & Scientific Advisor, LawZero & Mila
affiliation: Mila
in category: AI Governance Policy & Responsible AI
honoree tier: Icon
description: Turing Award laureate and chair of the international AI Safety Report, the flagship 30-nation scientific assessment. Founder and scientific advisor of Mila and founder of the nonprofit safe-AI lab LawZero; among the most influential scientists in AI.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/yoshua-bengio

Zico Kolter
type: Person
job title: Professor & Director, ML Dept, CMU; OpenAI board; Chief Scientist, Gray Swan AI
affiliation: Carnegie Mellon University
in category: AI Governance Policy & Responsible AI
honoree tier: Builder
description: Chief Scientist of Gray Swan AI, a member of OpenAI's board, and a Carnegie Mellon professor - a leading AI-safety researcher-executive bridging red-teaming research and governance. A World Summit AI 2026 speaker.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/zico-kolter

Aileen Lee
type: Person
job title: Founder & Managing Partner, Cowboy Ventures
affiliation: Cowboy Ventures
in category: AI Investors
honoree tier: Anchor
description: Founder and Managing Partner of Cowboy Ventures, who coined the term 'unicorn' and co-founded All Raise to advance women in venture. A leading seed investor with decades of experience, a deep rolodex and a prolific public speaker.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/aileen-lee

Hemant Taneja
type: Person
job title: CEO & Managing Director, General Catalyst
affiliation: General Catalyst
in category: AI Investors
honoree tier: Anchor
description: CEO and Managing Director of General Catalyst, which he built into a top global fund investing on a 'responsible innovation' thesis with a strong health and enterprise-AI focus. Author of 'Intended Consequences'; a CES 2026 speaker.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/hemant-taneja

Jennifer Li
type: Person
job title: General Partner, a16z
affiliation: Andreessen Horowitz
in category: AI Investors
honoree tier: Anchor
description: General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where she leads AI-infrastructure investing and sits on the boards of ElevenLabs, fal and Mux. One of the most active infra investors and a HumanX 2026 speaker.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/jennifer-li

Martin Casado
type: Person
job title: General Partner, a16z
affiliation: Andreessen Horowitz
in category: AI Investors
honoree tier: Anchor
description: General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz and one of the most influential - and outspoken - infrastructure/AI investors. Previously founded Nicira (a networking pioneer); a prolific, opinionated stage and social presence.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/martin-casado

Nathan Benaich
type: Person
job title: Founder & GP, Air Street Capital
affiliation: Air Street Capital
in category: AI Investors
honoree tier: Builder
description: Founder and General Partner of Air Street Capital and author of the industry-standard annual 'State of AI Report'. Runs Europe's largest solo-GP fund; hosts and keynotes the Research and Applied AI Summit.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/nathan-benaich

Pegah Ebrahimi
type: Person
job title: Co-founder & Managing Partner, FPV Ventures
affiliation: FPV Ventures
in category: AI Investors
honoree tier: Builder
description: Co-founder and Managing Partner of FPV Ventures, backing mission-driven AI founders. Previously COO of Morgan Stanley's technology investment banking and a Cisco executive; a HumanX 2026 speaker.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/pegah-ebrahimi

Rudina Seseri
type: Person
job title: Founder & Managing Partner, Glasswing Ventures
affiliation: Glasswing Ventures
in category: AI Investors
honoree tier: Builder
description: Founder and Managing Partner of Glasswing Ventures, a first-capital-in investor in AI-native and Frontier Tech startups transforming B2B and cybersecurity markets. A frequent AI-strategy speaker and a 100 Women in AI honoree.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/rudina-seseri

Sarah Guo
type: Person
job title: Founder & General Partner, Conviction
affiliation: Conviction
in category: AI Investors
honoree tier: Anchor
description: Founder and General Partner of Conviction, a top AI-native venture firm. Previously a Greylock GP; made her Midas List debut in 2026. A HumanX and RSAC 2026 speaker.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/sarah-guo

Sonya Huang
type: Person
job title: Partner, Sequoia Capital
affiliation: Sequoia Capital
in category: AI Investors
honoree tier: Anchor
description: Partner at Sequoia Capital and author of its canonical generative-AI essays ('Generative AI's Act Two', the AI-agent thesis); led investments in OpenAI, Hugging Face and LangChain. Keynoted Sequoia's AI Ascent 2026.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/sonya-huang

Vinod Khosla
type: Person
job title: Founder, Khosla Ventures
affiliation: Khosla Ventures
in category: AI Investors
honoree tier: Icon
description: Founder of Khosla Ventures and the earliest institutional backer of OpenAI. A Sun Microsystems co-founder turned prolific, provocative AI-future investor and essayist; a keynote at the India AI Impact Summit and Cerebral Valley 2026.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/vinod-khosla

Anca Dragan
type: Person
job title: VP, AI Safety, Alignment & Collaboration, Google DeepMind
affiliation: Google DeepMind
in category: AI Research & Academic Leaders
honoree tier: Builder
description: VP of AI Safety, Alignment and Collaboration at Google DeepMind and an associate professor at UC Berkeley (currently on leave), a leading authority on human-AI interaction and alignment - bringing the safety-research perspective from inside a frontier lab.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/anca-dragan

Andrew Ng
type: Person
job title: Founder, DeepLearning.AI; Managing General Partner, AI Fund
affiliation: DeepLearning.AI
in category: AI Research & Academic Leaders
honoree tier: Anchor
description: Founder of DeepLearning.AI and managing general partner of AI Fund; co-founder of Coursera and Google Brain. The field's foremost builder-educator, whose courses trained millions; a HumanX and Ai4 2026 speaker and a top outreach target.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/andrew-ng

Anima Anandkumar
type: Person
job title: Bren Professor, Caltech
affiliation: California Institute of Technology
in category: AI Research & Academic Leaders
honoree tier: Anchor
description: Bren Professor at Caltech (previously a senior director of ML research at NVIDIA), a leader in AI-for-science and tensor methods and a TIME100 AI Impact honoree. Also a prominent advocate for women in AI (she led the NIPS→NeurIPS renaming).
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/anima-anandkumar

Chelsea Finn
type: Person
job title: Assistant Professor, Stanford; Co-Founder, Physical Intelligence
affiliation: Stanford University
in category: AI Research & Academic Leaders
honoree tier: Anchor
description: Assistant Professor at Stanford and co-founder of Physical Intelligence, a leader in robot learning and meta-learning and one of the field's rising marquee researchers building robotics foundation models.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/chelsea-finn

Daniela Rus
type: Person
job title: Director, MIT CSAIL
affiliation: MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
in category: AI Research & Academic Leaders
honoree tier: Anchor
description: Director of MIT CSAIL, the largest research lab at MIT, and a world-leading roboticist advancing 'physical AI' and liquid neural networks. A frequent keynote at MIT's Imagination in Action and beyond.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/daniela-rus

Geoffrey Hinton
type: Person
job title: Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto
affiliation: University of Toronto
in category: AI Research & Academic Leaders
honoree tier: Icon
description: The 'godfather of AI', Turing Award laureate and Nobel laureate (Physics, 2024) whose work on backpropagation and deep learning underpins the field. A University of Toronto professor emeritus and prominent voice on AI risk; an Ai4 2026 keynote.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/geoffrey-hinton

Nuria Oliver
type: Person
job title: Scientific Director & Co-Founder, ELLIS Alicante; VP, ELLIS
affiliation: ELLIS Alicante
in category: AI Research & Academic Leaders
honoree tier: Builder
description: Co-founder and director of ELLIS Alicante, Europe's human-centric AI lab, and a vice-president of the ELLIS network; winner of Spain's 2025 National Research Award and a member of the international AI-safety panel. An AI for Good 2026 speaker.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/nuria-oliver

Percy Liang
type: Person
job title: Professor of Computer Science & Director, CRFM, Stanford
affiliation: Stanford University
in category: AI Research & Academic Leaders
honoree tier: Anchor
description: Professor at Stanford (promoted from Associate Professor in 2026) and director of the Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM), leading foundation-model transparency and evaluation (the HELM benchmark) and open science - a clean, safety-and-transparency-positive research leader.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/percy-liang

Pieter Abbeel
type: Person
job title: Professor, UC Berkeley; leads Frontier AI & Robotics, Amazon
affiliation: University of California, Berkeley
in category: AI Research & Academic Leaders
honoree tier: Anchor
description: Professor at UC Berkeley, host of 'The Robot Brains' podcast, and a leader of frontier robotics and reinforcement learning who now leads Amazon's Frontier AI & Robotics organization. A gifted explainer of physical AI.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/pieter-abbeel

Regina Barzilay
type: Person
job title: School of Engineering Distinguished Professor for AI & Health; AI Faculty Lead, MIT Jameel Clinic
affiliation: MIT Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health
in category: AI Research & Academic Leaders
honoree tier: Anchor
description: AI Faculty Lead at MIT's Jameel Clinic and a MacArthur Fellow, a pioneer of AI for drug discovery and early cancer detection. A TIME100 AI honoree delivering the 2026 Leiter Lecture.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/regina-barzilay

Sebastian Thrun
type: Person
job title: CEO, Dulo Technologies; Adjunct Professor, Stanford
affiliation: Dulo Technologies
in category: AI Research & Academic Leaders
honoree tier: Anchor
description: CEO of Dulo Technologies and an adjunct professor at Stanford. Founder of Waymo (Google's self-driving project), Google X and Udacity - a pioneer of self-driving cars and AI education. An Ai4 2026 keynote speaker.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/sebastian-thrun

Yejin Choi
type: Person
job title: Professor, Stanford (MacArthur Fellow); Distinguished Scientist, NVIDIA
affiliation: Stanford University
in category: AI Research & Academic Leaders
honoree tier: Builder
description: Professor at Stanford and a Distinguished Scientist at NVIDIA, a MacArthur Fellow and leader in commonsense reasoning and natural-language processing - one of the most cited researchers bridging language models and reasoning.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/yejin-choi

Arvind Jain
type: Person
job title: Founder & CEO, Glean
affiliation: Glean
in category: AI Startup Founders & CEOs
honoree tier: Builder
description: Founder and CEO of Glean, the enterprise AI platform valued at $7.2B. Previously co-founded Rubrik; a frequent enterprise-AI keynote speaker.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/arvind-jain

Barr Moses
type: Person
job title: Co-founder & CEO, Monte Carlo AI
affiliation: Monte Carlo
in category: AI Startup Founders & CEOs
honoree tier: Anchor
description: Co-founder and CEO of Monte Carlo, the agent trust platform, whose customers accelerate their AI transformation from piloting human-guided agents to deploying fully autonomous operations at enterprise scale. Backed by Accel, GGV Capital, ICONIQ Growth and Redpoint Ventures. A Databricks Data+AI Summit 2026 speaker.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/barr-moses

Bret Taylor
type: Person
job title: Co-founder & CEO, Sierra
affiliation: Sierra
in category: AI Startup Founders & CEOs
honoree tier: Anchor
description: Co-founder and CEO of Sierra, the conversational-AI agent platform for customer experience, and chair of OpenAI's board. Previously co-CEO of Salesforce, CEO of Quip and CTO of Facebook - an elite operator-founder. A HumanX and Cerebral Valley 2026 speaker.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/bret-taylor

Cristóbal Valenzuela
type: Person
job title: Co-founder & co-CEO, Runway
affiliation: Runway
in category: AI Startup Founders & CEOs
honoree tier: Builder
description: Co-founder and co-CEO of Runway, the generative-AI video and world-model pioneer used across film and creative work, valued in the billions. One of the most prolific voices in creative AI.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/cristobal-valenzuela

Demi Guo
type: Person
job title: Co-founder & CEO, Pika
affiliation: Pika
in category: AI Startup Founders & CEOs
honoree tier: Builder
description: Co-founder and CEO of Pika, the fast-scaling generative-AI video platform for creators; a Forbes AI 50 company. A HumanX 2026 speaker and a prominent young woman founder in creative AI.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/demi-guo

Eleanor Lightbody
type: Person
job title: CEO, Luminance
affiliation: Luminance
in category: AI Startup Founders & CEOs
honoree tier: Builder
description: CEO of Luminance, the 'legal-grade' AI platform automating contract review, negotiation and analysis, which raised a major 2026 round. A Cerebral Valley London 2026 speaker and one of the most prominent women CEOs in enterprise AI.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/eleanor-lightbody

Eléonore Crespo
type: Person
job title: Co-founder & co-CEO, Pigment
affiliation: Pigment
in category: AI Startup Founders & CEOs
honoree tier: Builder
description: Co-founder and co-CEO of Pigment, the AI-native enterprise business-planning and forecasting platform (a European unicorn). A HumanX 2026 speaker.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/eleonore-crespo

Jennifer Smith
type: Person
job title: Co-founder & CEO, Scribe
affiliation: Scribe
in category: AI Startup Founders & CEOs
honoree tier: Builder
description: Co-founder and CEO of Scribe, the Specialized Intelligence platform trusted by over 7 million people and 94% of the Fortune 500 - capturing how work gets done and turning it into the firm's own compounding IP. Previously at McKinsey and Greylock; a HumanX 2026 speaker.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/jennifer-smith

Jesse Zhang
type: Person
job title: Co-founder & CEO, Decagon
affiliation: Decagon
in category: AI Startup Founders & CEOs
honoree tier: Builder
description: Co-founder and CEO of Decagon, the AI customer-service 'concierge' agent platform whose ARR tripled into a multibillion-dollar valuation. A Cerebral Valley 2026 speaker and a leading name in enterprise agents.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/jesse-zhang

Lin Qiao
type: Person
job title: Co-founder & CEO, Fireworks
affiliation: Fireworks
in category: AI Startup Founders & CEOs
honoree tier: Anchor
description: Co-founder and CEO of Fireworks, the platform for specialized intelligence enabling companies like Uber and Shopify to train and serve custom models. Before founding Fireworks, she was the co-creator and head of Meta's PyTorch.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/lin-qiao

Mati Staniszewski
type: Person
job title: Co-founder & CEO, ElevenLabs
affiliation: ElevenLabs
in category: AI Startup Founders & CEOs
honoree tier: Anchor
description: Co-founder and CEO of ElevenLabs, the category-leading AI voice and voice-agent platform, valued in the billions. A Web Summit Doha 2026 keynote speaker who also runs the ElevenLabs summit series.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/mati-staniszewski

May Habib
type: Person
job title: Co-founder & CEO, Writer
affiliation: Writer
in category: AI Startup Founders & CEOs
honoree tier: Anchor
description: Co-founder and CEO of Writer, the full-stack enterprise generative-AI platform (models plus agents) used by large enterprises. A repeat founder and one of the most prominent women building enterprise AI; a HumanX 2026 speaker.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/may-habib

Michael Truell
type: Person
job title: Co-founder & CEO, Anysphere (Cursor)
affiliation: Anysphere
in category: AI Startup Founders & CEOs
honoree tier: Anchor
description: Co-founder and CEO of Anysphere, maker of Cursor - the AI-native code editor that became one of the fastest-growing developer tools in the category and a landmark revenue story. A defining figure of the agentic-coding wave.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/michael-truell

Minna Song
type: Person
job title: Founder & CEO, EliseAI
affiliation: EliseAI
in category: AI Startup Founders & CEOs
honoree tier: Builder
description: Founder and CEO of EliseAI, the conversational-AI platform automating leasing and resident operations in housing and now expanding into healthcare, with ~$100M ARR and a $2.2B+ valuation. A 2026 CNBC Changemaker.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/minna-song

Navrina Singh
type: Person
job title: Founder & CEO, Credo AI
affiliation: Credo AI
in category: AI Startup Founders & CEOs
honoree tier: Anchor
description: Founder and CEO of Credo AI, the enterprise AI-governance platform. A WEF Young Global Leader; a HumanX 2026 and WEF Davos 2026 speaker on AI trust and guardrails.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/navrina-singh

Pelonomi Moiloa
type: Person
job title: Co-founder & CEO, Lelapa AI
affiliation: Lelapa AI
in category: AI Startup Founders & CEOs
honoree tier: Anchor
description: Co-founder and CEO of Lelapa AI, building Africa's multilingual LLMs (InkubaLM) for low-resource languages - a TIME100 AI honoree and a leading voice for inclusive, Global-South AI. Speaks at MWC Kigali, TED AI and AI for Good.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/pelonomi-moiloa

Scott Wu
type: Person
job title: Co-founder & CEO, Cognition (Devin)
affiliation: Cognition
in category: AI Startup Founders & CEOs
honoree tier: Anchor
description: Co-founder and CEO of Cognition, maker of Devin, the autonomous AI software engineer that defined the agentic-coding category, and now steward of Windsurf. A competitive-programming prodigy; among the most-watched founders of 2026.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/scott-wu

Shiv Rao
type: Person
job title: Co-founder & CEO, Abridge
affiliation: Abridge
in category: AI Startup Founders & CEOs
honoree tier: Builder
description: Co-founder and CEO of Abridge, the ambient clinical-AI leader that drafts medical documentation from patient conversations, deployed across major health systems. A physician-founder; a Cerebral Valley Voice 2026 keynote speaker.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/shiv-rao

Vipul Ved Prakash
type: Person
job title: Co-founder & CEO, Together AI
affiliation: Together AI
in category: AI Startup Founders & CEOs
honoree tier: Builder
description: Co-founder and CEO of Together AI, the GPU and inference cloud for building and running generative AI, valued in the billions. A serial founder; a HumanX 2026 and Milken 2026 speaker.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/vipul-ved-prakash

Winston Weinberg
type: Person
job title: Co-founder & CEO, Harvey
affiliation: Harvey
in category: AI Startup Founders & CEOs
honoree tier: Anchor
description: Co-founder and CEO of Harvey, the domain-specific AI for legal and professional services that scaled into 75% of the Am Law 100, reached a multibillion-dollar valuation, and emerged as the breakout vertical-AI company.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/winston-weinberg

Ali Ghodsi
type: Person
job title: Co-founder & CEO, Databricks
affiliation: Databricks
in category: Big Tech AI Leadership
honoree tier: Anchor
description: Co-founder and CEO of Databricks, the data-and-AI platform (Mosaic AI, Agent Bricks) used across the enterprise. A former UC Berkeley adjunct professor and co-creator of Apache Spark; a HumanX 2026 and Data+AI Summit keynote voice.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/ali-ghodsi

Amar Subramanya
type: Person
job title: Vice President of AI, Apple
affiliation: Apple
in category: Big Tech AI Leadership
honoree tier: Builder
description: Vice President of AI at Apple, leading its AI organization after the 2026 leadership reorg under Craig Federighi. Joined from Microsoft after 16 years at Google, where he led engineering for Gemini and previously Google Assistant; brings Apple's on-device, privacy-first AI perspective to the list.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/amar-subramanya

Clara Shih
type: Person
job title: Founder & Exec. Director, New Work Foundation; Senior Advisor, Meta
affiliation: Meta Platforms
in category: Big Tech AI Leadership
honoree tier: Anchor
description: Senior Advisor at Meta, where she previously served as VP and Head of Business AI building AI agents for the 200M+ businesses across Meta's platforms. Founder of Hearsay Systems, former CEO of Salesforce AI, and now Founder and Executive Director of the New Work Foundation, focused on preparing workers for an AI-driven economy. A HumanX 2026 speaker.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/clara-shih

Fidji Simo
type: Person
job title: CEO, AGI Deployment, OpenAI
affiliation: OpenAI
in category: Big Tech AI Leadership
honoree tier: Anchor
description: CEO of AGI Deployment at OpenAI, having previously served as CEO of Applications, where she ran product, consumer and business operations including ChatGPT. Earlier CEO of Instacart, which she took public, and a Meta executive. One of the most powerful women operators in AI.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/fidji-simo

Jensen Huang
type: Person
job title: Founder & CEO, NVIDIA
affiliation: NVIDIA
in category: Big Tech AI Leadership
honoree tier: Icon
description: Founder and CEO of NVIDIA and the compute kingmaker of the AI era: NVIDIA's GPUs and CUDA stack underpin essentially all frontier training. His GTC keynotes function as industry state-of-the-unions; among the most consequential executives in technology.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/jensen-huang

Jonathan Ross
type: Person
job title: Chief Software Architect, NVIDIA
affiliation: NVIDIA
in category: Big Tech AI Leadership
honoree tier: Builder
description: Chief Software Architect at NVIDIA. Previously founded and led Groq, where he pioneered LPU-based AI inference hardware, and earlier invented Google's Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) - one of the AI industry's most influential infrastructure architects, shaping next-generation AI compute and inference.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/jonathan-ross

Kari Briski
type: Person
job title: VP Generative AI Software for Enterprise, NVIDIA
affiliation: NVIDIA
in category: Big Tech AI Leadership
honoree tier: Builder
description: VP of Generative AI Software at NVIDIA, shipping the enterprise agentic-AI developer stack (NIM microservices, NeMo). A hands-on platform leader who hosts frontier-model sessions at GTC; named to Fast Company's AI 20.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/kari-briski

Kevin Scott
type: Person
job title: CTO & EVP of AI, Microsoft
affiliation: Microsoft
in category: Big Tech AI Leadership
honoree tier: Icon
description: CTO and EVP of AI at Microsoft, architect of the Microsoft - OpenAI partnership and owner of Microsoft's company-wide AI platform strategy. Author and podcast host focused on inclusive, opportunity-widening AI; a regular Microsoft Build voice.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/kevin-scott

Koray Kavukcuoglu
type: Person
job title: Chief AI Architect Google / CTO GDM, Google / DeepMind
affiliation: Google DeepMind
in category: Big Tech AI Leadership
honoree tier: Builder
description: Chief AI Architect at Google and CTO of Google DeepMind, the technical architect behind Gemini. Promoted to a Google-wide AI-architecture role; a core builder of the systems powering Google's models.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/koray-kavukcuoglu

Lila Ibrahim
type: Person
job title: Chief AI Readiness Officer, Google DeepMind
affiliation: Google DeepMind
in category: Big Tech AI Leadership
honoree tier: Anchor
description: Chief AI Readiness Officer of Google DeepMind - a newly created role she moved into full-time in January 2026 after nearly eight years as COO - and the lab's public bridge on preparing society for frontier AI. TIME100 AI honoree; a frequent speaker at London Tech Week, Aspen and the WEF.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/lila-ibrahim

Lisa Su
type: Person
job title: Chair & CEO, AMD
affiliation: AMD
in category: Big Tech AI Leadership
honoree tier: Icon
description: Chair and CEO of AMD, which she rebuilt into a genuine challenger in AI accelerators; TIME's CEO of the Year. An electrical engineer by training and one of the most admired operators in semiconductors, headlining CES 2026.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/lisa-su

Matt Garman
type: Person
job title: CEO, Amazon Web Services
affiliation: Amazon Web Services
in category: Big Tech AI Leadership
honoree tier: Icon
description: CEO of Amazon Web Services, the cloud backbone of enterprise AI through Bedrock, SageMaker and the Trainium/Inferentia chips. A long-time AWS leader who ran its compute business before taking the top job; a HumanX 2026 speaker.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/matt-garman

Sarah Bird
type: Person
job title: Chief Product Officer Responsible AI, Microsoft
affiliation: Microsoft
in category: Big Tech AI Leadership
honoree tier: Anchor
description: Chief Product Officer of Responsible AI at Microsoft, owning responsible-AI product across Copilot and Azure. Founded Microsoft's FATE (fairness, accountability, transparency, ethics) research group; one of the most credible practitioner voices bridging safety and shipping product.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/sarah-bird

Silvio Savarese
type: Person
job title: EVP & Chief Scientist, Salesforce AI
affiliation: Salesforce
in category: Big Tech AI Leadership
honoree tier: Builder
description: EVP and Chief Scientist of Salesforce AI, leading the research behind Agentforce. A Stanford professor known for foundational computer-vision work; also serves on the UN's Independent Scientific Panel on AI.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/silvio-savarese

Swami Sivasubramanian
type: Person
job title: VP Agentic AI, AWS
affiliation: Amazon Web Services
in category: Big Tech AI Leadership
honoree tier: Anchor
description: VP of Agentic AI at AWS, leading the agent portfolio around Amazon Bedrock. A long-time AWS machine-learning leader (ex-head of AI/ML services) and a fixture on the re:Invent keynote stage; named to Fast Company's AI 20.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/swami-sivasubramanian

Athina Kanioura
type: Person
job title: CEO, Latin America Foods & EVP, Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer, PepsiCo
affiliation: PepsiCo
in category: Enterprise Chief AI Officers
honoree tier: Anchor
description: EVP and Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer of PepsiCo (and CEO of its Latin America Foods unit), driving the company's AI-augmented operating model. Previously Accenture's Chief Analytics Officer; a Davos 2026 speaker.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/athina-kanioura

Barak Turovsky
type: Person
job title: EVP & Head of Consumer AI, Paramount
affiliation: Paramount
in category: Enterprise Chief AI Officers
honoree tier: Builder
description: EVP and Head of Consumer AI at Paramount, leading AI across the media company's consumer products and experiences. Previously Chief AI Officer at General Motors and a Google product leader (Google Translate); a bridge between consumer-AI craft and large-scale enterprise deployment.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/barak-turovsky

Berta Rodriguez-Hervas
type: Person
job title: Senior Vice President, Enterprise AI Platforms, American Express
affiliation: American Express
in category: Enterprise Chief AI Officers
honoree tier: Builder
description: Senior Vice President, Enterprise AI Platforms at American Express. Previously Chief AI & Analytics Officer at Pfizer, where she led enterprise AI and analytics and co-chaired the company's AI Council. Recognized for driving AI adoption at scale across highly regulated industries, from healthcare to financial services.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/berta-rodriguez-hervas

Bhavesh Dayalji
type: Person
job title: CEO, Kensho Technologies; Chief AI Officer, S&P Global
affiliation: S&P Global
in category: Enterprise Chief AI Officers
honoree tier: Anchor
description: CEO of Kensho Technologies and Chief AI Officer of S&P Global, driving AI and machine learning across the company's market-data and intelligence business. A HumanX 2026 speaker in both San Francisco and Amsterdam.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/bhavesh-dayalji

Daniel Danker
type: Person
job title: EVP AI Acceleration Product & Design, Walmart
affiliation: Walmart
in category: Enterprise Chief AI Officers
honoree tier: Builder
description: EVP of AI Acceleration, Product and Design for Walmart. In this role, Daniel accelerates the company's AI transformation and leads all product management and design across the enterprise.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/daniel-danker

Diana Schildhouse
type: Person
job title: Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Colgate-Palmolive
affiliation: Colgate-Palmolive
in category: Enterprise Chief AI Officers
honoree tier: Builder
description: Chief Data and Analytics Officer of Colgate-Palmolive, deploying AI across a global consumer-goods portfolio - R&D, supply chain and marketing. A World Summit AI 2026 speaker.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/diana-schildhouse

Greg Ulrich
type: Person
job title: Chief AI & Data Officer, Mastercard
affiliation: Mastercard
in category: Enterprise Chief AI Officers
honoree tier: Builder
description: Chief AI and Data Officer of Mastercard, leading AI across the payments network - fraud defense, Decision Intelligence and the Shopping Muse agent. A veteran Mastercard data leader and frequent payments-AI speaker.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/greg-ulrich

Helena Fu
type: Person
job title: Director, Office of Critical & Emerging Technologies; Deputy Chief AI Officer, US Dept of Energy
affiliation: United States Department of Energy
in category: Enterprise Chief AI Officers
honoree tier: Builder
description: Director of the US Department of Energy's Office of Critical and Emerging Technologies and its Deputy Chief AI Officer, coordinating AI across the DOE's 17 national laboratories - one of the most consequential public-sector AI mandates in the US.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/helena-fu

Jane Moran
type: Person
job title: Chief Information & Digital Officer, Mass General Brigham
affiliation: Mass General Brigham
in category: Enterprise Chief AI Officers
honoree tier: Builder
description: Chief Information and Digital Officer of Mass General Brigham, embedding AI safely across the clinical and operational core of a leading academic health system. A HIMSS 2026 AI-forum speaker.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/jane-moran

Jeff McMillan
type: Person
job title: Founder & AI Advisor, McMillanAI
affiliation: McMillanAI
in category: Enterprise Chief AI Officers
honoree tier: Builder
description: Founder of McMillanAI and former Head of Firmwide AI at Morgan Stanley, where he built one of the financial industry's pioneering OpenAI-powered assistants for wealth management. He now advises boards, CEOs, investors and enterprises on AI strategy, governance and executive AI adoption.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/jeff-mcmillan

John Roese
type: Person
job title: Global CTO & Chief AI Officer, Dell Technologies
affiliation: Dell Technologies
in category: Enterprise Chief AI Officers
honoree tier: Builder
description: Global CTO and Chief AI Officer of Dell Technologies, steering both Dell's AI-infrastructure strategy and its internal AI adoption. A widely quoted enterprise-AI voice and Dell Technologies World keynote regular.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/john-roese

Katrin Lehmann
type: Person
job title: Chief Information Officer, Mercedes-Benz
affiliation: Mercedes-Benz Group
in category: Enterprise Chief AI Officers
honoree tier: Builder
description: Chief Information Officer of Mercedes-Benz, leading enterprise AI across a global automaker - from engineering to manufacturing to the in-car experience. A HumanX 2026 speaker.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/katrin-lehmann

Kristin Milchanowski
type: Person
job title: Chief AI & Quantum Officer, BMO Financial Group
affiliation: BMO Financial Group
in category: Enterprise Chief AI Officers
honoree tier: Builder
description: Chief AI and Quantum Officer of BMO Financial Group, running AI, data and quantum for one of North America's largest banks and founding director of its applied-AI institute. Author of 'Return on Intelligence'; a 2026 fintech-conference speaker.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/kristin-milchanowski

Lan Guan
type: Person
job title: Chief AI & Data Officer, Accenture
affiliation: Accenture
in category: Enterprise Chief AI Officers
honoree tier: Anchor
description: Chief AI and Data Officer of Accenture, leading roughly 80,000 AI and data professionals and steering a multibillion-dollar AI investment. Accenture's public face on enterprise AI and part of its WEF Davos 2026 delegation.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/lan-guan

Marco Argenti
type: Person
job title: CIO, Goldman Sachs
affiliation: Goldman Sachs
in category: Enterprise Chief AI Officers
honoree tier: Anchor
description: Chief Information Officer of Goldman Sachs and its firm-wide AI lead, behind the GS AI Assistant and the bank's generative-AI rollout. A former Amazon and Uber technology executive; a frequent enterprise-AI keynote voice.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/marco-argenti

Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov
type: Person
job title: Chief AI Officer, eBay
affiliation: eBay
in category: Enterprise Chief AI Officers
honoree tier: Builder
description: Chief AI Officer of eBay, leading marketplace-scale AI across discovery, trust and seller tools. A World Summit AI 2026 and Chief AI Officer Summit NY speaker.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/nitzan-mekel-bobrov

Philipp Herzig
type: Person
job title: CTO & Chief Product Officer, Business AI, SAP
affiliation: SAP
in category: Enterprise Chief AI Officers
honoree tier: Builder
description: Chief Technology Officer of SAP - promoted from Chief AI Officer, a role he held through 2025 - continuing to embed AI (the Joule copilot and 400+ embedded use cases) across the ERP backbone that runs much of the global economy. A frequent SAP Sapphire and enterprise-AI keynote voice.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/philipp-herzig

Philippe Rambach
type: Person
job title: Chief AI Officer, Schneider Electric
affiliation: Schneider Electric
in category: Enterprise Chief AI Officers
honoree tier: Builder
description: Chief AI Officer of Schneider Electric, deploying AI across energy management and industrial operations with a sustainability-forward focus - the rare enterprise CAIO whose mandate ties AI directly to decarbonization. A World Summit AI 2026 speaker.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/philippe-rambach

Teresa Heitsenrether
type: Person
job title: Chief Data & Analytics Officer, JPMorganChase
affiliation: JPMorganChase
in category: Enterprise Chief AI Officers
honoree tier: Anchor
description: Chief Data and Analytics Officer of JPMorgan Chase, where she rolled out the firm-wide LLM Suite to 200,000+ employees and sits on the Operating Committee - the gold-standard 'AI inside a regulated bank' story.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/teresa-heitsenrether

Xavier Amatriain
type: Person
job title: Chief AI & Data Officer, Expedia Group
affiliation: Expedia Group
in category: Enterprise Chief AI Officers
honoree tier: Builder
description: Chief AI and Data Officer of Expedia Group, leading consumer-scale applied AI across travel. A prolific writer and speaker on recommender systems and applied ML; a World Summit AI 2026 speaker.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/xavier-amatriain

Aidan Gomez
type: Person
job title: Co-founder & CEO, Cohere
affiliation: Cohere
in category: Frontier & Foundation Models
honoree tier: Anchor
description: Co-founder and CEO of Cohere, the enterprise-focused LLM company, and a co-author of the original 'Attention Is All You Need' transformer paper as a Google Brain intern. Pairs foundational research credibility with an enterprise, data-privacy-first product focus.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/aidan-gomez

Aravind Srinivas
type: Person
job title: Co-founder & CEO, Perplexity
affiliation: Perplexity
in category: Frontier & Foundation Models
honoree tier: Anchor
description: Co-founder and CEO of Perplexity, the AI 'answer engine' that reframed search around cited, conversational responses and scaled to a multibillion-dollar valuation. Ex-OpenAI/DeepMind researcher and one of the most prolific founder-communicators in AI.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/aravind-srinivas

Arthur Mensch
type: Person
job title: Co-founder & CEO, Mistral AI
affiliation: Mistral AI
in category: Frontier & Foundation Models
honoree tier: Anchor
description: Co-founder and CEO of Mistral AI, Europe's flagship frontier lab, which he built into the continent's answer to the US labs with a strong open-weight and sovereign-AI stance. Ex-DeepMind researcher; a fixture at VivaTech, HumanX and Davos and a leading European voice on AI policy.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/arthur-mensch

Daniela Amodei
type: Person
job title: President & co-founder, Anthropic
affiliation: Anthropic
in category: Frontier & Foundation Models
honoree tier: Anchor
description: President and co-founder of Anthropic, running the company's operations, strategy and scaling alongside CEO Dario Amodei. Ex-Stripe and OpenAI (former VP of Safety and Policy); one of the most influential women operators in frontier AI and a keynote voice on responsible scaling.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/daniela-amodei

Dario Amodei
type: Person
job title: CEO & co-founder, Anthropic
affiliation: Anthropic
in category: Frontier & Foundation Models
honoree tier: Icon
description: Co-founded Anthropic in 2021 after leading GPT-2/GPT-3 work as OpenAI's VP of Research, and built it into a top-three frontier lab behind the Claude models. The most credible public voice arguing that safety and capability must scale together; his essays and Davos appearances shape the policy conversation.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/dario-amodei

Demis Hassabis
type: Person
job title: CEO & co-founder, Google DeepMind
affiliation: Google DeepMind
in category: Frontier & Foundation Models
honoree tier: Icon
description: Nobel laureate (Chemistry, 2024, for AlphaFold) and co-founder/CEO of Google DeepMind, which he now runs as Google's unified AI engine behind Gemini. A chess prodigy turned neuroscientist turned lab director overseeing several thousand researchers; the field's most decorated scientific leader.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/demis-hassabis

Fei-Fei Li
type: Person
job title: Co-founder & CEO, World Labs
affiliation: World Labs
in category: Frontier & Foundation Models
honoree tier: Icon
description: The 'godmother of AI': created ImageNet, which catalyzed the deep-learning revolution, and founded AI4ALL to widen the field. Now co-founder/CEO of World Labs, building 'spatial intelligence' world models, and Special Advisor on AI to the Stanford president following the May 2026 restructuring of Stanford HAI, which she previously co-directed. A marquee keynote at HumanX, Ai4 and CES.
main entity of page: https://aibuildersnetwork.org/chief-in-ai-100/fei-fei-li

Greg Brockman
type: Person
job title: President & co-founder, OpenAI
affiliation: OpenAI
in category: Frontier & Foundation Models
honoree tier: Anchor
description: President and co-founder of OpenAI, the company's technical and infrastructure anchor from the earliest days. A relentless builder who demos flagship launches himself; central to OpenAI's scaling, compute strategy and developer platform.
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Ilya Sutskever
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Jakub Pachocki
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Joelle Pineau
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Mira Murati
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Sam Altman
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Sara Hooker
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AI Builders Global Conference 2026
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How many honorees are in the Chief in AI 100?
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How many categories does the Chief in AI 100 span?
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Is placement on the Chief in AI 100 for sale?
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Why is the Chief in AI 100 exactly 50% women?
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How many honorees are in the AI Startup Founders & CEOs category?
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What is the AI Builders Global Conference 2026?
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Which Chief in AI 100 honorees are confirmed to speak at the AI Builders Global Conference 2026?
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How can someone nominate a Chief in AI leader for the 2027 edition?
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Who runs Anthropic, according to the Chief in AI 100?
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