Alexander Vinokurov is a Russian businessman, investor, and co-founder of Marathon Group, the private investment firm he launched with Sergey Zakharov in 2017. A former Morgan Stanley, TPG Capital, and A1 executive, he is closely associated with major Russian assets across food retail, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and infrastructure, including Marathon Group’s significant stake in Magnit.

Jared Kushner is an American businessman, investor, and former Senior Advisor to President Donald Trump. The son-in-law of Donald Trump and a Harvard graduate, he previously led Kushner Companies and the New York Observer, played a central White House role in Middle East diplomacy, the Abraham Accords, criminal justice reform, and U.S.-Mexico relations, and later founded Affinity Partners, a global investment firm.

Eric Trump is an American businessman and Executive Vice President of The Trump Organization, overseeing real estate, hospitality, golf, acquisitions, development, branding, construction, and operations. A Georgetown graduate and son of Donald Trump, he is also Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of American Bitcoin and involved in World Liberty Financial, extending the Trump business presence into cryptocurrency and blockchain.

Ivanka Trump, entrepreneur and former White House senior advisor, built a public career across real estate, fashion, politics, and private investment. Before serving in the Trump administration from 2017 to 2021, she held executive roles at the Trump Organization and ran her own fashion brand, which she closed in 2018. She did not take an official role in her father’s second administration and has since focused on family life, private ventures, and investment projects.

Trae Stephens, partner at Founders Fund and cofounder and executive chairman of Anduril Industries, is one of the key investors and operators behind the rise of defense technology. A former early Palantir employee focused on intelligence and defense work, he helped launch Anduril in 2017 and has backed companies at the intersection of national security, AI, autonomy, and hard tech. Anduril was valued at $30.5 billion in 2025, making Stephens one of the most prominent figures in Silicon Valley’s defense-tech boom.

Qasar Younis, cofounder and CEO of Applied Intuition, helped build a $15 billion vehicle software company serving automakers, defense, trucking, construction, mining, and agriculture. Born in Pakistan and raised near Detroit, he worked at GM, Bosch, Google, and later served as COO of Y Combinator before launching Applied Intuition with Peter Ludwig in 2017. His career connects automotive engineering, Silicon Valley product building, and physical AI.

Peter Ludwig, cofounder and CTO of Applied Intuition, helped build the company into a major vehicle software supplier for automakers, defense, trucking, construction, mining, and agriculture. A University of Michigan computer science graduate and former Google engineer, he worked on Google Maps and Android Automotive before launching Applied Intuition with Qasar Younis in 2017. The company now serves 18 of the world’s top 20 automakers and is valued at about $15 billion.

Amjad Masad, cofounder and CEO of Replit, built one of the fastest-growing AI coding platforms from a browser-based programming tool into a major “vibe coding” company. Born in Jordan, he previously worked at Codecademy and Facebook before launching Replit with Haya Odeh and Faris Masad in 2016. The company was valued at $9 billion after a $400 million funding round announced in March 2026, making Masad a billionaire.

Clay Bavor, cofounder of Sierra, spent 18 years at Google before launching the AI customer-service startup with Bret Taylor. At Google, he most recently led Google Labs and previously helped lead major product efforts including AR/VR, Project Starline, Google Lens, and Google Workspace design and product teams. At Sierra, he brings a product-heavy background to building AI agents for enterprise customer experience.

Bret Taylor, chairman of OpenAI and cofounder of Sierra, has built one of Silicon Valley’s most unusually varied résumés. He co-created Google Maps, served as CTO of Facebook, founded Quip, became co-CEO of Salesforce, and chaired Twitter’s board during its sale to Elon Musk. Now leading Sierra, an AI customer-service startup, Taylor sits at the center of the generative AI boom while helping guide OpenAI’s board.

Andy Konwinski, cofounder of Databricks and Perplexity, is a computer scientist and investor focused on AI, data infrastructure, and research-driven startups. He earned his Ph.D. in computer science at UC Berkeley, where he contributed to Apache Hadoop and co-created Apache Mesos and Apache Spark. He later cofounded Laude Ventures and Laude Institute, including a $100 million commitment to support AI researchers.

Denis Yarats, cofounder and CTO of Perplexity, previously worked at Microsoft, Quora, and Facebook AI Research. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from NYU and has research experience in machine learning and reinforcement learning. At Perplexity, he helped build the company’s AI answer engine, which combines large language models with real-time, source-backed search.

Daniel Nadler, founder and CEO of OpenEvidence, has emerged as one of the standout entrepreneurs of the AI era by building a platform that applies large language models to clinical decision-making and medical research. A former academic and founder of Kensho Technologies, which was acquired by S&P Global for $550 million, he has repeatedly operated at the intersection of artificial intelligence and high-value information systems. With OpenEvidence’s rapid growth among physicians, Nadler has become a major figure in AI-driven healthcare infrastructure.

Edwin Chen, founder and CEO of Surge AI, built one of the most important hidden infrastructure companies of the generative AI era by supplying the high-quality human data and evaluation systems used to train frontier models. A former engineer at leading tech companies, he launched Surge in 2020 and scaled it with unusual speed, turning a bootstrapped startup into a billion-dollar-revenue business serving top AI labs. Known for a low profile and uncompromising focus on quality, Chen has emerged as one of the standout entrepreneurs behind the AI boom.

Ivan Zhao, cofounder and CEO of Notion, built one of the most influential productivity software companies of the modern era by turning a minimalist workspace tool into a global platform for notes, docs, databases, and collaboration. With a design-led philosophy and a strong focus on flexible software, he helped grow Notion into a company valued at $10 billion, positioning it at the center of the convergence of productivity, knowledge management, and AI.

Martin Klenk, cofounder and CTO of Celonis, helped turn a university project into one of Europe’s most valuable software companies by building a global leader in process mining and process intelligence. Since launching Celonis in 2011 with Alexander Rinke and Bastian Nominacher, he has been central to the company’s technical vision, helping scale its platform as major enterprises use it to uncover inefficiencies, optimize operations, and strengthen AI-driven execution. Known for deep product focus and a lower public profile, Klenk stands out as one of the key technical architects behind Celonis’s rise.

Bastian Nominacher, cofounder and co-CEO of Celonis, helped turn a Munich startup into one of Europe’s most valuable software companies by building a global leader in process mining and process intelligence. Since launching Celonis in 2011, he has helped scale the company into a major enterprise software force serving thousands of deployments worldwide, as businesses use its platform to uncover inefficiencies, streamline operations, and make AI more effective in real-world workflows. Known for execution-focused leadership and long-term product conviction, Nominacher has become one of the standout founders in European tech.

Alexander Rinke, cofounder and co-CEO of Celonis, helped turn a university project into one of Europe’s most valuable software companies by building a global leader in process mining and process intelligence. Since cofounding Celonis in 2011, he has guided its rise into a major enterprise software force serving thousands of deployments worldwide, as companies use its technology to uncover inefficiencies, improve operations, and accelerate AI-driven decision-making. Known for product conviction and execution-focused leadership, Rinke has become one of the standout founders in European tech.

Peter Salanki, cofounder and chief technology officer of CoreWeave, helped build one of the AI boom’s fastest-rising infrastructure companies by turning specialized GPU expertise into a major cloud platform for artificial intelligence. After joining CoreWeave in 2019 and rising through its engineering ranks before becoming CTO in 2024, he became a central technical force behind the company’s expansion into high-performance compute for leading AI labs and enterprises. Known for deep engineering focus and a low public profile, Salanki is one of the key architects behind CoreWeave’s rise.

Brannin McBee, cofounder and chief development officer of CoreWeave, helped build one of the AI boom’s most closely watched infrastructure companies by transforming an early GPU-heavy business into a major cloud platform for artificial intelligence. A former chief strategy officer at the company, he has been central to CoreWeave’s growth from startup to public-market player, helping position it as a key supplier of high-performance computing to AI developers and enterprises.