Donald Trump appointed the first members of the Science and Technology Advisory Board (PCAST) on Wednesday, at the beginning of his term, which will be responsible for submitting proposals to strengthen the sector, according to a post by the White House.
The first group includes thirteen members, including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Nvidia chip giant CEO Jensen Huang, and Oracle president Larry Ellison.
All three are known to have close ties with the American president, as well as Michael Dell, CEO of the Dell computer group, and Marc Andreessen, from the powerful investment firm Andreessen Horowitz, who are also on the board.
However, the heads of Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, or Apple are notably absent from the list.
Donald Trump also appointed Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange platform co-founder Fred Ehrsam to the board, who contributed one million dollars to the president’s inauguration ceremony.
The board will be co-chaired by David Sacks, Donald Trump’s chief advisor on artificial intelligence (AI) and cryptocurrencies, and Michael Kratsios, the White House’s representative on science and technology.
The decree creating the board, issued in January 2025, states that it can have up to 24 members and will be dissolved two years after the publication of the text, theoretically in January 2027, unless extended by the American president.
