Factbox: OpenAI's new-look board as Altman returns

Skillsoft

22/11/2023 08:39

Nov 22 (Reuters) - ChatGPT-maker OpenAI on Tuesday said
it reached an agreement for Sam Altman to return as CEO days
after his ouster, and also agreed in principle to partly
reconstitute the board of directors that had dismissed him. 
    Bret Taylor, formerly co-CEO of Salesforce and Larry
Summers, former U.S. Treasury Secretary, along with Quora CEO
and current director Adam D'Angelo will be part of the board,
OpenAI said.  
    
    Here's what we know about them:
    * Taylor, 43, is an American computer programmer and
entrepreneur, who is also a board member at Shopify  SHOP.TO .
Taylor will chair the OpenAI board
    * Summers, 68, is an American economist who has served as
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001
    * A professor at Charles W Eliot University, Summers is also
President Emeritus at Harvard
    * Summers is also on the board of Jack Dorsey's Block Inc
 SQ.N  and Skillsoft Corp  SKIL.N 
    * D'Angelo, 39, is an American internet entrepreneur, best
known as founder of California-based social question-and-answer
website and online knowledge market Quora 
    * A Computer Science graduate, D'Angelo was previously CTO
of Facebook for nearly two years till June 2008
    
(Sources: TechCrunch, Reuters reporting and LinkedIn)    

 (Reporting by Aby Jose Koilparambil in Bengaluru; Editing by
Anil D'Silva and Nivedita Bhattacharjee)
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