Braintrust
Presented by
Protocol's experts on the biggest questions in tech.
February 5, 2020
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
