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Too often, discussions about tech and its impacts are dominated by the loudest voices on Twitter and the purveyors of the hottest take — even as the voices of people with real expertise on the issues go unheard. The Protocol Braintrust will change that.
Protocol is assembling a group of genuine experts to become members of Braintrust — C-suite executives from tech companies and legacy companies dealing with tech's impact; engineers and others who do the hard work of making tech happen; innovators and investors whose startups are on the cutting edge; bankers and lawyers who make deals happen and see the risks around the corners; tech company employees who watch the future unfolding from the inside; and the smartest, most dialed-in thinkers from academia and public policy.
Each week, we'll poll the group on pressing questions in tech and present their views as a snapshot of the smartest, most informed thinking available. And each week, we'll dive deeper with a selected group of Braintrust members who have specific expertise on the issue of the week, publishing responses from them that will give you access to the smartest, best-informed insights available anywhere.
We'll ask the Braintrust to respond to a mix of questions — some that go to big, existential and evergreen issues and long-term trends, and others that offer opportunities to understand their real-time analysis and predictions about the major developments in tech news.
Should you or someone you know be a part of the Braintrust? Contact braintrust@protocol.com
Who's contributing to Protocol's Braintrust?
Selim Aissi

Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Ellie Mae
Stuart Alderoty

General Counsel at Ripple
Terry Angelos

SVP, Global Head of Fintech at Visa
Shannon Austin

Partner at Financial Venture Studio
Jeremy Balkin

Head of Innovation at HSBC
Gary Beasley

CEO & co-founder at Roofstock
Kobi Bentkovski

CEO and Co-Founder at Water.io
Jen Bennett

Technical Director, Office of the CTO, Google Cloud at Google Cloud
Sanjay Beri

CEO and Founder at Netskope
Dr. Tariq Bin Hendi

Director General at Abu Dhabi Investment Office
Asheesh Birla

General Manager at Ripple
Stacey Boyd

CEO at Olivela
Brian Brackeen

General Partner at Lightship Capital
Doug Brake

Director, Broadband and Spectrum Policy at ITIF
Rachel Carlson

CEO and Co-Founder at Guild Education
Anne Chow

CEO at AT&T Business
Peter Chapman

CEO & President at IonQ
Dr. Rumman Chowdhury

Responsible AI Lead at Accenture
Carl Christensen

CTO and Co-Founder at Spacemaker.ai
Vanessa Colella

Chief Innovation Officer, Head of Citi Ventures at Citi
Brandi Collins-Dexter

Senior Campaign Director at Color of Change
Topher Conway

Partner at SV Angel LLC.
Dr. James Cooper

Professor of Law and Director of International Legal Studies at California Western
Matthew T. Cornelius

Executive Director at the Alliance for Digital Innovation
Zachary Crockett

Founder and Former CTO at Particle
Renée Cummings

AI Ethicist, Criminologist, Criminal Psychologist
Matt Cutts

Administrator at U.S. Digital Service
Steve Dertien

CTO at PTC
Suzanne DiBianca

Executive Vice President of Corporate Relations and Chief Impact Officer of Salesforce
Dr. Seth Dobrin

VP IBM Data and AI, Chief Data Officer at IBM Cloud and Cognitive Software at IBM
Dr. Jennifer Doleac

Director at Justice Tech Lab
Dr. Renee Dua

CEO at Heal
Dr. Shahram Ebadollahi

Global Head of Data Science and AI at Novartis
Sarah Edwards

CEO & Consultant at Station X Labs
Tilman Ehrbeck

Managing Partner at Flourish
Paul Eremenko

Aerospace Executive and Entrepreneur
Susan Etlinger

Senior Fellow at Altimeter
Ruslan Fazlyev

CEO at Ecwid
Assaf Feldman

CTO at Riskified
Marcus Fowler

Director of Strategic Threat at Darktrace
Summer Craze Fowler

Chief Information Officer at Argo AI
Kurt Fulepp

Chief Product Officer at AccuWeather
Dario Gil

Director of IBM Research at IBM
John Godfrey

Senior Vice President of Public Policy at Samsung Electronics America
Andrew Graham

CEO and Co-Founder at Borrowell
Kirsten Green

Founding Partner at Forerunner Ventures
Helen Greiner

Army HQE Robotics, Autonomous Systems, and AI at ASAALT
Steve Grobman

SVP and CTO at McAfee
Jonathan Heiliger

General Partner at Vertex Ventures
Doug Hirsch

Co-Founder & CEO at GoodRx
Liz Howard

Counsel at Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law
John Hultquist

Director, Intelligence Analysis at FireEye, Inc.
Raghib Hussain

Chief Strategy Officer at Marvell
Christina Janzer

Senior Director of Research & Analytics at Slack
Karen Jaw-Madson

Principal at Co.-Design of Work Experience
Alex Jiménez

Chief Strategy Officer at Extractable
Aaron Karczmer

Chief Risk Officer and EVP, Risk and Platforms at PayPal
Raj Kapoor

Chief Strategy Officer at Lyft
Abby Kearns

CTO at Puppet
Jess Keeney

SVP of Development at UKG
Raffi Krikorian

Managing Director at Emerson Collective
Morgan Kurk

CTO at CommScope
Chad Latz

CIO at BC&W
Lisa Lewin

CEO at General Assembly
Dan Lewis

CEO & Founder at Convoy Inc.
Nancy Ranxing Li Ph.D.

Director, Edge Cloud Platforms at Cox Communications
Dr. Susan Liautaud

Founder at The Ethics Incubator
David Linthicum

Chief Cloud Strategy Officer at Deloitte Consulting
Kimber Lockhart

Chief Technology Officer at One Medical
Steven Long

Regional CTO at AppDynamics, part of Cisco
Lori MacVittie

Principal Technical Evangelist at F5
Dr. Maulik Majmudar

Principal Medical Officer at Amazon Halo
Roxana Marachi

Associate Professor of Education at San José State University
Dr. Ron Marquardt

Vice President of Advanced Technologies and Innovation at T-Mobile
Peter Marta

Partner, Privacy and Cybersecurity at Hogan Lovells
Evan Marwell

Founder and CEO at EducationSuperHighway
Lena Mass-Cresnik

Chief Data Officer at Moelis & Company
Tekedra N. Mawakana

Chief Operating Officer at Waymo
Jason Maynard

SVP Global Field Operations at Oracle NetSuite
Ed McLaughlin

President Operations & Technology at Mastercard
Gabrielle McMillan

CEO at Equiem
John McNelis

Industry Lead, Autonomous Transportation and Shared Mobility; Partner, Intellectual Property at Fenwick & West
Bruce Mehlman

Founder at Mehlman Castagnetti Rosen & Thomas
Ann Miura-Ko

Co-Founding Partner at Floodgate
Devie Mohan

Co-founder and CEO at Burnmark
Matt Murphy

Managing Partner at Menlo Ventures
Dr. Pravene Nath

Global Head for Digital Health Strategy at Genentech/Roche
Paul Newman

Founder at Oxbotica
Jason Oxman

President and CEO at Information Technology Industry Council
William Peteroy

Chief Technology Officer, Security at Gigamon
Riana Pfefferkorn

Research Scholar at the Stanford Internet Observatory
Wendy M. Pfeiffer

CIO at Nutanix
Amit Phadnis

Chief Digital Officer at GE Healthcare
John Pitts

Global Head of Policy at Plaid
Sanjay Poonen

COO at VMWare
Lila Preston

Partner & Co-Head of Growth Equity at Generation Investment Management
Vivek Ravisankar

CEO at Hackerrank
John Rich

CTO at Ford AV LLC
Beverly Rider

Chief Commercial Officer at Hitachi Global Social Innovation Business
Alex Rodrigues

CEO at Embark
Phill Rosen

CEO at Even Financial
Sherry Ryan

IT Vice President and CISO at Juniper Networks
Guido Sacchi

SEVP & CIO at Global Payments
Yuni Sameshima

CEO & Co-Founder at Chicory
Jarmo Sareva

Ambassador for Innovation at Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland
Tige Savage

Revolution Ventures Managing Partner at Revolution Ventures
Caroline Savello

Chief Commercial Officer at Color Genomics
Marietje Schaake

International Policy Director at Stanford Cyber Policy Center; Member of European Parliament 2009-2019
Emmanuel Schalit

CEO at Dashlane
Mihir Shah

Co-CEO at JLL Technologies
Gary Shaprio

President and CEO at Consumer Technology Association
Usman K. Shuja

Chief Commercial Officer at Honeywell Connected Enterprise
David Siegel

Co-Chairman at Two Sigma
Dani Simons

Head of Public Sector Partnerships at Waze
Jon Sobel

Co-Founder and CEO at Sight Machine
Yancey Spruill

CEO at DigitalOcean
Ashok Srivastava

Senior Vice President and Chief Data Officer at Intuit
Jennifer Stojkovic

Executive Director at sf.citi
Sash Sunkara

VP, Products and BD at Kontain
Mark Surman

President and Executive Director at Mozilla Foundation
Tom Taylor

SVP, Amazon Alexa at Amazon
Corey Thomas

Chairman and CEO at Rapid7
Anne Toth

CEO at Privacyworks
Lourdes Turrecha

Founder at The Rise of Privacy Tech
Bradley Tusk

Managing Partner at Tusk Ventures
Tien Tzuo

CEO at Zuora
Rich Uhlig

Managing Director of Intel Labs at Intel
Peter Ungaro

Senior Vice President and General Manager of HPC and AI at HPE
Hunter Walk

Partner at Homebrew
Maureen Waters

Partner at MetaProp
Gabriel Weinberg

Founder & CEO at DuckDuckGo
Glenn Weinstein

Chief Customer Officer at Twilio
Jason Wilk

CEO at Dave
Ian Wong

Co-Founder and CTO at Opendoor
Dave Wright

Chief Innovation Officer at ServiceNow
Angela Yochem

Chief Digital & Technology Officer, at Novant Health
Shelten Yuen

VP, Research at Fitbit
Michelle Zatlyn

Co-Founder & COO at Cloudflare
Ruby Zefo

Chief Privacy Officer at Uber
Scott Zoldi

Chief Analytics Officer at FICO
Kevin McAllister
Kevin McAllister ( @k__mcallister) is a Research Editor at Protocol, leading the development of Braintrust. Prior to joining the team, he was a rankings data reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where he oversaw structured data projects for the Journal's strategy team.
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