Leadership & Staff
Danielle Strachman
Charter School founder and Peter Associate Thiel
Muhammad Yunus
Microfinance pioneer; Founder, Grameen Bank of Bangladesh
Joe Lonsdale
Co-founded Palantir Technologies
John Mackey
Co-Founder, CEO - Whole Foods Market - will step down September 1 2022
John Chisholm
Founder-CEO & Chairman of Decisive Technology
Patri Friedman
Founder of Seasteading, grandson of Milton Friedman
Michael Strong
CEO of Freedom Lights Our World (FLOW)
George Petrie
Professor of Naval Architecture at Webb Institute
Eric Jacobus
Co-founder of The Stunt People
Ajay Royan
Royan is a Principal at a multi-billion dollar global macro hedge fund
Donors
Peter Thiel
Billionaire venture capitalist, PayPal and Palantir Cofounder; Chess prodigy
Holdings
Ephemerisle
A week-long on-the-water festival founded by the Steading institute
