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George Anderson Elected
to Leadership 100 Board
of Trustees and Appointed
to the Grant Committee
Michael J. Kratsios Appointed
Director of the Office of Science
and Technology Policy and
Science Advisor to the President
Leadership 100 elected
prominent member
George Anderson to its
Board of Trustees and
appointed him to the
Grant Committee.
Anderson was President
and Co-Founder of
Anderson Benson
George Anderson
Insurance & Risk
Management, a privately held insurance brokerage
and risk management firm with offices in
Nashville, New York and Los Angeles, which was
acquired by Gallagher Insurance, Risk
Management & Consulting, in 2023, for which
Anderson now serves as Area Chairman.
Anderson’s extensive civic and philanthropic
service includes more than a decade as a Board
member of The Metropolitan Nashville Parks and
Recreation for which he is Chairman of the Board,
service on the Development Committee of the Frist
Art Museum, more than a decade on the Board
and Stewardship Committee of the Washington,
DC-based Cultural Landscape Foundation, Chair
of the Conservancy of the Parthenon and
Centennial Park in Nashville, Tennessee, and as a
member of the 2019 NFL Nashville Draft Host
Committee. He is a graduate of the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Active in the Greek American community, he is a
Trustee of Hellenic College Holy Cross Greek
Orthodox School of Theology, an Archon of the
Ecumenical Patriarchate, The Order of Saint
Andrew, a member of the Board of Directors of
The Hellenic Initiative and a Founding Member of
the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
Foundation.
Michael J. Kratsios
On Dec. 22, 2024, President-elect Donald
Trump announced his intention to
appoint Michael J. Kratsios as Director of
the Office of Science and Technology
Policy and Science Advisor to the
President. In this Cabinet-level position,
Archon Kratsios will work on artificial
intelligence and cryptocurrency. He is a
member of Leadership 100 and an
Archon of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
Announcing the appointment, President-elect Trump said:
“Together, we will unleash scientific breakthroughs, ensure
America’s technological dominance, and usher in a Golden Age of
American Innovation!”
Kratsios served in the first Trump administration as a technology
adviser to the President beginning in 2017. In 2019, he became
Chief Technology Officer. During his confirmation hearing, he
said: “My mother and my grandfather came to the United States
from their native Greece in search of a more prosperous future.
They instilled in me that enduring optimism for a better
tomorrow. And I believe that embracing technological innovation,
building new technologies in America, and shaping those
technologies with American values will lead us to that stronger
future.”
In his new duties, Kratsios will advise “AI and Crypto Czar” David
Sacks as director of the White House Office of Science and
Technology Policy. In 2020, Archon Kratsios accompanied former
Secretary of State Michael Pompeo on his visit to Greece, played a
key role in the conclusion of a groundbreaking science and
technology agreement between the Hellenic Republic and the
United States.
Archon Kratsios’ family is from Volissos on the island of Chios and
the city of Kastoria in Greece. During the first Trump
administration, he led efforts on artificial intelligence and
quantum information science and is the architect of the American
AI Initiative.
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