Joining President Trump and the best officials in the United States and Saudi for lunch in Riyadh on Tuesday are business leaders of some of the largest classmates in the United States.
The executives of the technology companies, the banks, the consumer groups and other industries, including representatives of four of the 10 largest partners in the US. His companies are also dealing with the tariffs imposed by Mr. Trump in the US commercial partners, so the trip is an opportunity to press Trump’s senior officials, such as Treasury Secretary, Scott Besent, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, about commercial policy.
Saudi Arabia has become one of the world’s largest investors in artificial intelligence, an effort to diversify the economy of the nation rich in oil and influence one of the most popular sectors in the business world. Notable AI players at lunch include Sam Altman, executive director of Chatgpt Parent Openai; Jensen Huang, the leader of the advanced chips manufacturer Nvidia; Ruth Porrat, President and Investment Director of Alphabet, the Google parent company; and Andy Jassy, Chief of Amazon, who is an important service provider that computes the cloud.
There is also Elon Musk, who, in addition to supervising Trump’s effort to reduce the size of the federal government, also directs Tesla, Spacex and his own company of the so -called XAI, which is in conversations for new crowds that could assess the company by up to $ 120 billion.
The fixed sums of money that Saudi Arabia is spending on technology, infrastructure and other priorities have made the country a popular destination for financial executives to advise to advise the kingdom and its companies. The main financial leaders at lunch include Stephen Schwarzman from Blackstone, Larry Fink of Blackrock and Jane Fraser or Citigroup.
These are some of the business executives and other guests for lunch, according to a list provided by the White House:
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Elon Musk, Executive Director of Tesla and Spacex
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Stephen A. Schwarzman, Executive Director of the Blackstone Group
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Larry Fink, Executive Director or Blackrock
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Arvind Krishna, president and executive director of IBM
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Jane Fraser, Executive Director of Citigroup
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Kelly Ortberg, executive director of Boeing
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Ruth Pora, President and Investment Director of Alphabet and Google
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Andy Jassy, Amazon Executive Director
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Sam Altman, Executive Director of OpenAI
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Jensen Huang, Executive Director or Nvidia
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Alex Karp, Executive Director or Palantir
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Jeff Miller, Executive Director or Halliburton
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Travis Kalanick, former executive director of Uber and founder of Cloud Kitchens
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Kathy Warden, executive director of Northrop Grumman
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James Quincey, Executive Director or Coca-Cola
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Dara Kosrowshahi, executive director of Uber
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Francis Suárez, mayor of Miami
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Gianni Infantino, president of FIFA
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Patrick Soon-Shiong, Executive President of Immunity Bio and owner of Los Angeles Times
Reid Hoffman, executive president of LinkedIn, was on the list of attendees from the White House, but a representative said he did not attend.
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