Beth Ford ( Full Name: Beth E. Ford) is a popular American businessperson who is the President and Chief Executive Officer at Land O’Lakes, Inc. an agricultural cooperative she assumed leadership of in 2018. Besides, Beth is the first openly gay female CEO of an American Fortune 500 company. From 2017 to 2018, Beth was Chief Operating Officer of Land O’Lakes Businesses.
Mira Murati is a popular United States-based, Albanian-born engineer, researcher, and business executive who is the chief technology officer of OpenAI, the artificial intelligence research company that develops ChatGPT. She started her career as an intern at Goldman Sachs in 2011 and served at Zodiac Aerospace from 2012 to 2013. Mira spent three years at Tesla prior to joining Leap Motion. Mira then joined OpenAI in 2018, afterward becoming its chief technology officer, where she leads the company’s work on ChatGPT, Dall-E, and Codex. Mira’s responsibilities include oversight of the company’s research, product, and safety teams.
Alan Masarek is a preeminent American businessperson. Currently, he works at Avaya Holdings Corp. (NYSE: AVYA) as the Chief Executive Officer, President, and Board Director at Avaya. Prior to joining Avaya, Alan worked as Chief Executive Officer of Vonage Holdings Corp in Holmdel, NJ for five years and eight months.
Geoffrey Hinton ( Full Name: Geoffrey Everest Hinton) is a popular British-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist, well-known for his work on artificial neural networks. From 2013 until 2023, Geoffrey divided his time working for Google (Google Brain) and the University of Toronto, prior to publicly reporting his departure from Google in May 2023 citing concerns about the risks of artificial intelligence (AI) technology. In 2017, Geoffrey co-founded and became the chief scientific advisor of the Vector Institute in Toronto.
Bob Bakish ( Full Name: Robert Marc Bakish) is a prominent American business executive. Currently, he has been working at Paramount Global as the President and Chief Executive Officer since December 4, 2019. Previously, Bob held the same position at Viacom prior to the merger with CBS Corporation.
Ilya Sutskever is a popular Russian-born Israeli-Canadian computer scientist serving in machine learning, who co-founded and works as Chief Scientist of OpenAI. He has made many major contributions to the field of deep learning. Ilya is the co-inventor, alongside Alex Krizhevsky and Geoffrey Hinton, of AlexNet, a convolutional neural network. He is also one of the many co-authors of the AlphaGo paper. In 2015, Ilya co-founded OpenAI with Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, Sam Altman, Jessica Livingston, and Peter Thiel.
Yann Lecun ( Full Name: Yann André LeCun) is a popular Turing Award-winning French computer scientist serving primarily in the fields of machine learning, computer vision, mobile robotics, and computational neuroscience. He works as the Silver Professor of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University and is Vice-President and Chief AI Scientist at Meta. Yann is well known for his work on optical character recognition and computer vision using convolutional neural networks (CNN), and is a founding father of convolutional nets.
George Cheeks is a popular American President and CEO of CBS (a news, entertainment, and sports media company and studio) since March 2020. He previously worked as Vice Chairman of NBCUniversal Content Studios from 2019 until 2020. Before that, George held other various leadership roles of increasing responsibility at NBCUniversal, such as Co-Chairman of NBC Entertainment from 2018 until 2019, Co-President of Universal Cable Productions, and President of Late Night Programming at NBC Entertainment from 2017 until 2018.
Mauricio Gutierrez is a noted Mexican businessman. He is working as the Chief Executive Officer at NRG Energy since December 2015. He joined NRG Energy as Executive Vice President of Commercial Operations in August 2007. Before that, he spent four years and seven months as Dynegy Senior Asset Manager and Managing Director. In addition, Gutierrez is also on the board of Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc.
Alan Mulally ( Full Name: Alan Roger Mulally) is a prominent American aerospace engineer and manufacturing executive. From 1998 to 2006, he served as the CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Later, Alan worked for the Ford Motor Company from 2006 to 2014 as the President and Chief Executive Officer.