Donald Trump Appoints Indian-Origin Entrepreneur Sriram Krishnan As Senior AI Policy Advisor

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Donald Trump has appointed Indian-origin entrepreneur Sriram Krishnan as senior White House policy advisor

Krishnan will focus on ensuring the continued leadership of the United States in AI, and on shaping and coordinating AI policy across government, including with the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

He has held key positions in firms, including Microsoft, Facebook and Snap

US President-elect Donald Trump has appointed Indian-origin entrepreneur Sriram Krishnan as senior White House policy advisor on artificial intelligence.

“Sriram Krishnan will serve as the senior policy advisor for artificial intelligence at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy,” Trump shared in a post on Truth Social, as he announced a slew of appointments on AI.

“Working alongside David Sacks, Krishnan will focus on ensuring the continued leadership of the United States in AI, and on shaping and coordinating AI policy across government, including with the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology,” Trump stated.

Responding to Trump’s announcement, Krishnan in a post on X, wrote, “I’m honored to be able to serve our country and ensure continued American leadership in AI. Thank you, Donald Trump, for this opportunity.”

Krishnan has served in the product design space for over two decades. He has held key positions in firms, including Microsoft where he began in the year 2005, later moved to Facebook for around 3 years, leading the product strategy.

He has also served at Snap and Twitter leading consumer product teams.

In his personal capacity he has been an advisor to firms such as Figma, Notion, Cameo, Coda Scale.ai, Elon Musk’s SpaceX and CRED among others.

This comes at a time when there were other key appointments made recently.

For instance, early this month venture capital and growth equity investment firm Elevation Capital roped in former Meta executive Krishna Mehra as partner to lead SaaS and AI investments for the fund.

In the same month Gurugram-based digital marketing startup iCubesWire roped in digital and entertainment industries veteran Kushal Sanghvi as its chief revenue officer (CRO).

Similarly, Flipkart-backed fintech super app super.money roped in tech veteran Kaushik Mukherjee as its chief technology officer (CTO).

In October, Paytm appointed its CTO Manmeet Dhody as “AI Fellow” to drive its projects related to AI innovation in business.