Maria Eitel — Co-Founder

Maria Eitel is a globally-recognized leader, movement builder, board member, and adviser known for her cross-sector leadership. Her career spans journalism, government, corporate responsibility, and philanthropy. Maria brings her solutions-driven approach to global challenges, advising businesses and individuals at pivotal moments, helping them find purpose and success deployed at scale. Maria currently focuses her work on Artificial Intelligence (AI) safety and its capacity to make our lives better. Learn more: www.mariaeitel.com Email: hello@mariaeitel.com Continued Biography: Maria is the founder of Plan-A, a global initiative mobilizing leaders across sectors to ensure humanity not only survives but thrives in the age of AI. Together with RAND, Plan-A developed an experience that reimagines their Cold War–era strategic exercises that helped develop intellectual foundations and frameworks for nuclear deterrence, non-proliferation, and misuse — for the age of AI. Maria sits on numerous boards. She is Chairman of the Board for LawZero, along with Board Members like Yoshua Bengio, Turing Prize winner and AI creator. She brings her AI and leadership experience to the organization. Maria is also the Chair Emeritus of The Girl Effect (Nike), and on the board of the National Hockey League (NHL) Seattle Kraken. Maria’s previous board experience includes major companies and organizations -- Cloudflare (a world’s leader in connectivity and cybersecurity company), the MIT Media Lab Advisory Council, GoFundMe, the Safeco Corporation, National Academy of Sciences Commission on Labor Standards, American Hospital of Paris Board of Governors, the International Commission on Labor Standards, the Eastern Congo Initiative, and the board of the World Surfing League. She is also a part of the World Bank Gender Action Group and the World Economic Forum Global Governance Initiative.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI safety and corporate responsibility across multiple sectors.

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States

Experience: 34 yrs 5 mos