| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Website | https://www.redwoodresearch.org/ |
| Team page | https://www.redwoodresearch.org/team |
| Launch date | 2021-10-05 |
| Last recorded date when we made major data updates for this org | 2025-01-22 |
| Donations List Website (data still preliminary) |
Hover over a name to see the position and date range. This table only includes positions where at least the start date is known. The positions count can count the same person multiple times if they held different positions; similarly, the list of staff may include the same person multiple times if they held more than one position during a single year. For each year, a person is included if they were at the organization for any part of the year; this means the actual staff count at any point during the year can be lower (or higher, if some staff held multiple positions in a single year).
The following table lists some dates and people who were at the organization on the given date (namely, the start of the year). The table may not list every person who worked for the organization (e.g. they could have joined and left in the middle of a single year). This table excludes associates, interns, advisors, and board members.
| Date | Staff count | Staff |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-01-01 | 2 | Buck Shlegeris, Nathaniel Thomas |
| 2021-01-01 | 7 | Adam Scherlis, Bill Zito, Buck Shlegeris, James Bregan, Nathaniel Thomas, Royston Noronha, Seraphina Nix |
| 2022-01-01 | 13 | Adam Scherlis, Aqeel Ali, Bill Zito, Buck Shlegeris, Daniel Ziegler, James Bregan, Nathaniel Thomas, Peter Schmidt-Nielsen, Royston Noronha, Ryan Greenblatt, Ryan Greenblatt, Seraphina Nix, Tao Lin |
| 2023-01-01 | 10 | Adam Scherlis, Bill Zito, Buck Shlegeris, Daniel Ziegler, Nathaniel Thomas, Peter Schmidt-Nielsen, Royston Noronha, Ryan Greenblatt, Ryan Greenblatt, Tao Lin |
| 2024-01-01 | 9 | Ajeya Cotra, Aryan Bhatt, Buck Shlegeris, Nathaniel Thomas, Peter Schmidt-Nielsen, Royston Noronha, Ryan Greenblatt, Ryan Greenblatt, Tao Lin |
| 2025-01-01 | 12 | Adam Kaufman, Alex Mallen, Aryan Bhatt, Buck Shlegeris, Cody Rushing, Joshua Clymer, Nathaniel Thomas, Peter Schmidt-Nielsen, Royston Noronha, Tao Lin, Tyler Tracy, Vivek Hebbar |
This table shows the full change history of positions. Each row corresponds to at least one addition or removal of a position. Additions are in green and subtractions are in red. If a position name changed, it is listed simultaneously as an addition (of the new name) and removal (of the old name) and colored yellow. Additionally there are faded variants of each color for visited links.
| Person | Title | Start date | End date | Employment type | Source | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buck Shlegeris | Chief Technology Officer/Chief Executive Officer | 2020-01-01 | full-time | [1], [2], [3] | ||
| Ryan Greenblatt | Chief Scientist | 2021-12-01 | 2024-11-27 | full-time | [4], [3] | |
| Joshua Clymer | Technical Staff/Researcher | 2024-10-01 | full-time | [5], [6], [3] | ||
| Aryan Bhatt | Member of Technical staff/AI Safety Researcher | 2024-01-01 | full-time | [7], [3] | ||
| Cody Rushing | Member of Technical Staff | 2025-01-01 | full-time | [8], [3] | ||
| Vivek Hebbar | Member of Technical Staff | 2025-01-01 | full-time | [3] | ||
| Tyler Tracy | Member of Technical Staff | 2025-01-01 | full-time | [3] | ||
| Adam Kaufman | Member of Technical Staff | 2025-01-01 | full-time | [3] | ||
| Alex Mallen | Member of Technical Staff | 2025-01-01 | full-time | [3] | ||
| Nathaniel Thomas | Founder & Chief Executive Officer | 2019-09-01 | full-time | [9], [10], [3] | ||
| Ammon Bartram | Board of Directors | 2025-01-01 | board member | [3] | ||
| Guilhermo Cutrim Costa | Machine Learning Intern | 2022-06-01 | full-time | [11] | ||
| Peter Schmidt-Nielsen | Member of Technical Staff | 2021-09-01 | full-time | [12] | ||
| Tao Lin | Member Of Technical Staff | 2021-09-01 | full-time | [6], [13], [14] | ||
| Royston Noronha | Business Development Manager | 2020-03-01 | full-time | [15] | ||
| Cody Rushing | Research Intern | 2024-06-01 | 2024-12-01 | full-time | [8] | |
| Adam Scherlis | Staff | 2021-01-01 | 2023-01-22 | [16], [17] | ||
| Ajeya Cotra | Advisor | 2021-01-01 | 2022-09-22 | advisor | [16], [18] | |
| Ajeya Cotra | Director | 2023-09-12 | 2024-11-27 | board member | [19], [20] | |
| Aqeel Ali | Operations Manager | 2021-08-01 | 2022-08-01 | full-time | [21], [22] | |
| Ben Weinstein-Raun | Member Of Technical Staff | 2021-06-01 | 2021-10-01 | full-time | [16], [23] | |
| Bill Zito | Chief Operating Officer | 2021-01-01 | 2023-10-04 | [24], [16], [25] | ||
| Blake Borgeson | Advisor | 2021-01-01 | 2022-09-22 | advisor | [16], [18] | |
| Claire Zabel | Advisor | 2021-01-01 | 2022-09-22 | advisor | [13], [18] | |
| Daniel Ziegler | Member Of Technical Staff | 2021-08-01 | 2023-06-01 | full-time | [16], [26] | |
| James Bregan | Staff | 2021-01-01 | 2022-05-03 | [13], [22] | ||
| Holden Karnofsky | Board Member | 2021-01-01 | 2023-11-16 | board member | [16], [1] | |
| Luke Sallmen | Staff | 2022-03-01 | 2022-05-03 | [27], [22] | ||
| Malo Bourgon | Advisor | 2021-01-01 | 2022-09-22 | advisor | [16], [18] | |
| Noa Nabeshima | Staff | 2021-11-21 | 2021-11-21 | [13] | ||
| Owen Cotton-Barratt | Advisor | 2021-01-01 | 2022-09-22 | advisor | [13], [18] | |
| Paul Christiano | Board Member | 2021-01-01 | 2023-01-22 | board member | [16], [17] | |
| Paul Christiano | Director | 2023-03-31 | 2023-08-30 | board member | [28], [29] | |
| Ryan Greenblatt | Member of Technical Staff | 2021-12-01 | 2024-11-27 | full-time | [4], [20] | |
| Seraphina Nix | Research Engineer | 2020-11-01 | 2022-08-01 | full-time | [16], [30] | |
| Tyler Storlie | Staff | 2022-03-01 | 2022-05-03 | [27], [22] |
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