Sept 28 (Reuters) – Anthropic’s IPO prospectus, seen by Reuters, reveals its board and key executives at the helm of the AI giant, as it moves to beat its arch rival OpenAI to go public.
The US IPO market has rebounded in recent months, with the listing of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s SpaceX earlier this year among the most prominent offerings, boosted by strong investor sentiment in the AI sector particularly.
Here are some details about the board members and key executives at Anthropic:
Name Role Joined Past Experiences
and Other
Details
Dario Amodei Co-founder 2021 VP of Research
and CEO; at OpenAI, which
Director he left in
2020. Senior
Research
Scientist at
Google, which he
quit in 2016.
Daniela Co-founder 2021 VP of Safety and
Amodei and Policy at
President; OpenAI, which
Chairperson she left along
of the Board with her
brother, Dario.
She headed risk
operations at
Stripe, which
she quit in
2018.
Jared Kaplan Co-founder 2021 Research
and Chief Consultant at
Science OpenAI, which he
Officer left in 2020. He
also works as a
professor at
Johns Hopkins
University since
2012.
Krishna Rao CFO 2024 CFO at Fanatics
Commerce, which
he left in 2024.
He quit Airbnb
in 2021, where
he had been the
global head of
corporate &
business
development.
Rahul Patil Chief 2025 CTO of Stripe,
Technology which he left
Officer last year. He
was senior VP of
cloud
infrastructure
at Oracle, which
he left in 2020.
Sam Co-founder 2021 Member of
McCandlish and Chief Technical Staff
Architect at OpenAI, which
he left in 2020.
Paul Smith Chief 2025 Special Advisor
Commercial at ServiceNow,
Officer which he left
before joining
Anthropic.
Chris Ciauri Managing 2025 CEO of Unily,
Director of which he quit
International last year. He
was President of
EMEA at Google
Cloud, a role he
left in 2021.
OTHER BOARD MEMBERS
Chris Board Member 2026 Former CFO of
Liddell Microsoft.
Deputy White
House Chief of
Staff during
President
Trump’s first
term.
Vas Board Member 2026 Current CEO of
Narasimhan Novartis.
Yasmin Board Member 2023 General Partner
Razavi at Spark
Capital, which
has invested in
Anthropic.
Reed Board Member 2025 Chairman and
Hastings co-founder of
Netflix.
TRUSTEES WHO BALANCE ANTHROPIC’S GOALS AS PUBLIC
BENEFIT CORP
Neil Buddy Chair of the 2023 CEO of Clinton
Shah LTBT & Health Access
Trustee Initiative
Richard Trustee 2025 CEO of the
Fontaine Center for a New
American
Security
Ben Bernanke Trustee 2026 Former Federal
Reserve
Chairman,
Brookings
Institution
Fellow
(Reporting by Jaspreet Singh, Prathik Jayaprakash and Arasu Kannagi Basil in Bengaluru. Editing by Alan Barona)
