Amazon's newest board member is Andrew Ng.
Andrew Ng is a well-known business technology leader in machine learning, AI, and online education, and a serial startup founder, investor, and educator.
Ng was a former co-founder of Coursera, an online education company, and is currently the managing general partner of the AI Fund venture capital fund, the founder of DeepLearning.AI, an education technology company, the founder and CEO of Landing AI, a computer vision startup, an adjunct professor at Stanford University, and a former chief scientist at Baidu and head of the deep learning program at Google Brain.
On April 11, 2024, when Amazon announced the appointment of Andrew Ng, it said that Ng "will help the board understand the opportunities and challenges presented by AI and its transformative social and business potential." ”
Judith McGrath, who has been a member of Amazon's board of directors since 2014, decided not to seek re-election to the board this year, Amazon said in its proxy statement.
As a result of this change, Amazon's 12 Board of Directors includes the following:
• Jeff Bezos, Founder and Executive Chairman of Amazon.
• Andy Jassy, CEO and President, Amazon.
• Keith Alexander, former CEO, president and chairman of IronNet, former commander of U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency (NSA).
• Edith Cooper，Medley Living, Inc. 联合创始人，高盛集团前执行副总裁。
• Jamie Gorelick，威凯平和而德（Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP）律师事务所合伙人。
• Daniel Huttenlocher, Dean of the Schwarzman School of Computer Science, MIT.
• Andrew Ng, Managing General Partner of AI Fund, DeepLearning.AI and founder of Landing AI.
• Indra Nooyi, former chairman and chief executive officer of PepsiCo.
• Jonathan Rubinstein, former co-CEO of Bridgewater Associates, the world's largest hedge fund, and former executive of Apple, Palm and Hewlett-Packard.
• Brad Smith, President of Marshall University and former Executive Chairman, President and CEO of Intuit.
• Patricia Stonesifer, former president and CEO of Martha's Table, a Washington-based nonprofit, and former CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
• Wendell Weeks, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Materials Science Innovator and Manufacturer Corning Incorporated