Chris Hyams is the former CEO of Indeed, the world’s leading job site, where he spent 15 years before leaving to focus full-time on AI ethics. He is a Board Trustee and Visiting Lecturer at Huston-Tillotson University, an Historically Black University in Austin, TX, where he teaches on the intersection of technology, power, and justice. Chris is a Board Member at Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC supporting common-sense AI guardrails and fighting the AI industry’s efforts to buy Congressional influence and block meaningful regulation.

Chris started his career working in adolescent addiction recovery, and then as a high school Special Education teacher in the Vermont public school system. After working as a musician in Los Angeles, he went back to school to study Computer Science. Chris worked as a software engineer, and later became VP of Engineering at Trilogy Software. Prior to Indeed, he was Founder & CEO of B-Side, a technology platform for independent film discovery and distribution. Chris earned an A.B. in Architecture from Princeton University and a Masters in Computer Science from Rice University. He lives in Austin, TX.