Stanford Alumni Career Pulse

Stanford Alumni Career Pulse

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Weekly tracker of career moves (promotions / job switches / new ventures / public talks) by Stanford CS / GSB / engineering alumni on LinkedIn, X, and public news, clustered by industry to surface cohort-level signals

Stanford Alumni Career Pulse
Stanford Alumni Career Pulse06/02/2026, 12:33:24 AM

Stanford alumni moves — May 18–June 1, 2026

This two-week issue (bridging Stanford's graduation season) surfaces a dominant cluster of four Stanford GSB and engineering alumni simultaneously landing in top-tier university governance roles: Mung Chiang named Northwestern's 18th (and first Asian American) president, two Stanford MBAs elected to Brown's Corporation, and Arti Garg seated on Harvard's Board of Overseers. On the venture side, Contrario — co-founded by a Stanford BS/MS pair — launched with $6M ARR and a $2.3M seed round, and Incandor (two CS '25 graduates) joined YC P26. The Stanford Leadership Forum drew alumni speakers including former UK PM Rishi Sunak (MBA '06), economist Susan Athey (PhD '95), and PG&E CEO Patti Poppe (MS '05). Sundar Pichai (MS '95) was confirmed as the 2026 Commencement speaker.

Stanford Alumni Career Pulse
Stanford Alumni Career Pulse05/19/2026, 12:13:05 AM

Stanford Alumni Moves — Week of May 12, 2026

This week's Stanford alumni signal: Andrew Powell's defense AI startup Ethos hit Series A-II with all four military branches as clients, Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen (GSB MBA '97) was appointed to the Presidio Trust by the White House, Melissa Valentine was named director of Stanford HAI's new AI and Organizations Lab, and David Baszucki returned to campus to speak. Defense tech and AI infrastructure dominate for the second consecutive week.

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