
He was headed for film school when a pinstriped stranger offered to teach him the math. Three decades later, Matt Brown has made a career of turning finance's velvet ropes into software.

The CAIS chief marketing officer has a practical brief: turn a difficult corner of finance into something advisors can learn, discuss and use. His playbook begins with useful content - and ends in rooms full of people.

Dan Hendrycks is the Executive Director of the Center for AI Safety (CAIS), the UC Berkeley PhD who created MMLU - the benchmark that shaped how the world measures AI intelligence - and invented GELU, the activation function running inside BERT, GPT, and virtually every major AI model. From a rural evangelical town in Missouri, he's become one of AI safety's most consequential voices, advising Elon Musk's xAI and Scale AI while sounding alarms about civilizational-scale AI risk, accepting $1/year to keep his independence intact.