Chris Liddell Appointed to Anthropic's Board of Directors

• Liddell joins Anthropic board; ex-CFO Microsoft, GM, International Paper.
  • Also served as Deputy White House Chief of Staff, Trump first term.
• Board now: Dario, Daniela Amodei, Yasmin Razavi, Jay Kreps, Reed Hastings, Liddell.
• Appointment reads as IPO-prep governance move.
  • PBC structure: board elected by stockholders + Long-Term Benefit Trust.
• Liddell: “Governance of transformative technologies matters as much as the technologies.”
• Current directorships: Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Council on Foreign Relations.
  • Chairs NZ’s largest environmental foundation; NZ Order of Merit 2016.

X discourse

• @akashmbtc: “Narasimhan joins Anthropic’s board, which includes Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, Yasmin Razavi, Jay Kreps, Reed Hastings” (28 likes)
• @LewSOS: “Just like we couldn’t afford to miss the Trump Train right Chris.” (21 likes)
• @tmiyatake1: “上場準備のための施策として思われている。” (5 likes)
• @ETtech: “Narasimhan joins Anthropic’s board which includes Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei…” (2 likes)
• @statnews: “Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan has joined its board. Other members include Reed Hastings and Chris Liddell” (1 likes)

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