Dario Amodei
Age 43Co-founder & CEO
Sets research direction and strategy. Previously VP of Research at OpenAI and a senior research scientist at Google Brain. CEO and director since January 2021.
Source: Anthropic leadership
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The executive team, the co-founders, the board as it will look after the IPO, and the trustees who elect most of it.
Titles as listed on Anthropic's leadership page. Ages and start dates come from the S-1.
Co-founder & CEO
Sets research direction and strategy. Previously VP of Research at OpenAI and a senior research scientist at Google Brain. CEO and director since January 2021.
Source: Anthropic leadership
Co-founder, President & Board Chair
Runs research, engineering, product, governance and commercial execution, and manages the executive team. Formerly VP of Safety and Policy at OpenAI and earlier at Stripe.
Source: Anthropic leadership
Chief Financial Officer
Leads finance. Previously CFO of Fanatics Commerce and Cedar, with earlier roles at Airbnb and Blackstone. CFO since April 2024.
Source: S-1 prospectus
Chief Technology Officer
Leads engineering across inference, product, infrastructure and security. Joined from Stripe, where he was CTO.
Source: Anthropic
Chief Product Officer
Leads the product organization. She joined at the end of 2025 and took over Product when Mike Krieger moved to Labs.
Source: Anthropic
Chief Commercial Officer
Leads commercial strategy and global go-to-market operations.
Source: Anthropic leadership
Chief Global Affairs Officer
Leads policy, international engagement and government relationships.
Source: Anthropic leadership
Chief Legal Officer
Oversees the Legal and Integrity & Compliance organizations.
Source: Anthropic leadership
Chief Brand & Communications Officer
Leads communications, editorial, brand, product marketing and creative.
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Chief People Officer
Leads talent acquisition, organizational development and workplace experience.
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Chief Information Security Officer
Leads information security.
Source: Observer
Five of the co-founders hold operating roles beyond the CEO and President. Labs and alignment are led by long-time staff.
Co-founder & Chief Science Officer
Heads technical research and foundational safety work. Observer reports he is also the responsible scaling officer.
Source: Anthropic leadership
Co-founder & Chief Architect
Focuses on large-scale training, leading pretraining, research productivity and RL infrastructure.
Source: Anthropic leadership
Co-founder & Chief Compute Officer
Leads the organization that secures, scales and uses Anthropic's compute.
Source: Anthropic leadership
Co-founder & Head of Public Benefit
Leads The Anthropic Institute, the company's research effort on AI's effects on society.
Source: Anthropic leadership
Co-founder & Interpretability Research Lead
Leads research into how models work internally.
Source: Anthropic leadership
Co-lead, Labs
Instagram co-founder and Anthropic's CPO for two years before moving to Labs to build experimental products.
Source: Anthropic
Co-lead, Labs
Co-leads Labs. Observer reports he also oversees the controlled rollout of Claude Mythos.
Source: Observer
Alignment Science Lead
Has led alignment science at Anthropic since 2024.
Source: Observer
Board as described in the S-1. After the IPO, directors elected by the Long-Term Benefit Trust (Class T directors) make up a majority of the board.
Chair
Chairs the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and is a Class T director.
Source: S-1 prospectus
Director
Elected by holders of voting common stock.
Source: S-1 prospectus
Lead Independent Director
Netflix co-founder. Sits on the Audit and Nominating committees and will be a Trust-nominated Class T director.
Source: S-1 prospectus
Director
Former CFO of Microsoft and General Motors. Chairs the Audit Committee and sits on the Safety and Risk Committee.
Source: S-1 prospectus
Director
CEO of Novartis. Chairs the Compensation Committee and the Safety and Risk Committee.
Source: S-1 prospectus
Director
General partner at Spark Capital. Sits on the Compensation and Nominating committees and will be elected by Class A and Class F holders.
Source: S-1 prospectus
The Trust holds Anthropic's single Class T share and elects the Class T directors. It has five authorized seats, and one is vacant.
Trust Chair
Expert in global health and social enterprise. Also an initial manager of the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund.
Source: S-1 prospectus
Trustee
Foreign policy and national security background, including leading the Center for a New American Security.
Source: S-1 prospectus
Trustee
Former Federal Reserve chair and 2022 Nobel laureate in economics.
Source: S-1 prospectus
Trustee
Experimental physicist who works on AI's applications in science and education.
Source: S-1 prospectus
The control structure in brief. The $ANT Desk has the full breakdown.
Class F share
The co-founders' voting vehicle will hold 50.1% of total voting power after the offering.
Source: S-1 prospectus
Class T share
Has no economic rights, but can elect and remove the Class T directors, who make up a board majority.
Source: S-1 prospectus
Class A
The seven executive officers and directors together beneficially owned 496.4 million Class A shares before the offering.
Source: S-1 prospectus
Compiled from Anthropic's Form S-1 (filed Oct 26, 2026), Anthropic's own pages and the publications linked on each entry. The registration statement is not yet effective and figures may change. Not investment advice.
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