Name: Greg Brockman
Title: President & Co-Founder of Open AI
Industry Affiliation:
- Greg Brockman is the current President of OpenAI—a tech firm he co-founded in 2015 with Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Ilya Sutskever. Brockman also served as OpenAI’s Chief Technology Officer and was largely responsible for recruiting the company’s initial researchers.
- Before OpenAI, Brockman worked at Stripe, the payment processing company founded by John and Patrick Collison. Brockman joined in 2010, as the startup’s fourth employee, and became the company’s first Chief Technology Officer in 2013.
Trump Admin Ties:
- Greg Brockman has quickly established himself as one of President Trump’s strongest financial backers. Greg, and his wife Anna, were MAGA, Inc’s largest donors in 2025 after contributing $25 million to the Trump-aligned super PAC that year.
- MAGA, Inc. is Trump’s most notable super PAC and amassed $305 million in donations a year after the 2024 elections.
- Brockman has collaborated with other Silicon Valley oligarchs in Trump’s orbit, like Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, to purchase influence over tech policy.
- To date, Brockman has donated at least $50 million to Leading the Future—an AI-industry super PAC jointly founded by OpenAI and Andreesen-Horowitz executives.
- Brockman has been a regular attendee at White House events throughout Trump’s second term:
- Brockman was invited to the White House on January 21, 2025 when Trump unveiled Project Stargate—a $500 billion data center construction initiative spearheaded by OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank.
- In September 2025, Brockman and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman both attended a convening of AI-industry tech leaders held in the White House. At the event, Brockman thanked Trump for how “this administration has really embraced AI.”
- Brockman was one of the fifty U.S. executives present at the November 2025 White House dinner Trump hosted for the Saudi Crown Prince. That same month, Brockman reportedly traveled with Trump to Japan.
Government Affairs:
- Brockman has played an essential role in the Trump administration’s embrace of the AI-industry; including efforts to fast-track data center construction and preempt state-level AI regulation.
- Brockman has also pushed for government-backed loan guarantees to help offset the costs AI-firms face when building new infrastructure.
- From 2023-2025, OpenAI spent $5.01 million to lobby on issues related to AI, cloud computing and infrastructure, cybersecurity, copyright, and privacy as well as AI-related legislation. In the first quarter of 2026, OpenAI spent $1.02 million to lobby on issues related to AI, cloud computing and infrastructure, cybersecurity, copyright, and privacy.
State Level Action:
- In 2018, Brockman donated $2,700 towards Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC)’s House re-election campaign.
- When Brockman and OpenAI aren’t outright opposing state-level AI policy, they’re trying to co-opt it. What OpenAI is “basically trying to do here,” according to its Chief Global Affairs Officer, “is use a bunch of the big states to come together and mirror each other to de facto create a national standard.”
- This strategy of “reverse federalism” has already been deployed in states like California—where OpenAI spent over $150,000 in 2025 to reshape proposed AI legislation like the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act (TFAIA). Although OpenAI did not endorse the law, the company was ultimately “happy with the outcome” after its “productive conversations with California lawmakers” helped water down the bill.