Anthropic adds Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan to its board

Reuters

Updated Tue, April 14, 2026 astatine 11:00 AM CDT 1 min read

April 14 (Reuters) - Anthropic connected Tuesday added Novartis' Chief Executive Officer Vas Narasimhan to its ‌board of directors, making him the archetypal ‌executive from the pharmaceutical manufacture to articulation the AI startup's ​governing body.

* Narasimhan joins Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, PresidentDaniela Amodei, Confluent CEO Jay Kreps, Netflix president ReedHastings, and others connected the board. * This marks the 2nd caller ‌board summation aft ⁠the Claudechatbot developer added Chris Liddell, a erstwhile Microsoftexecutive to its committee successful ⁠February. * Narasimhan has been appointed to Anthropic's committee by theAnthropic Long-Term Benefit Trust, an autarkic assemblage whosemembers ​have nary ​financial involvement successful the ​company. * Anthropic is reportedly ‌weighing an archetypal publicoffering that could instrumentality spot arsenic aboriginal arsenic this year. * In a LinkedIn post, the Novartis CEO said that "workingacross medicine, innovation, and planetary wellness has helped merealize that exertion creates ‌the astir worth erstwhile it'sdeployed ​responsibly." * "In healthcare AI is already ​accelerating immoderate of ​ourhardest technological challenges – from deepening our ‌understandingof illness biology to helping ​identify promising ​targets anddesign amended medicines. But velocity unsocial isn't the goal"Narasimhan noted, adding "what matters conscionable arsenic overmuch ​is however ‌thesetools are built, governed, and yet applied successful ​the realworld."