Reed Hastings is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Netflix. He co-founded Netflix in 1997 and served as CEO for 25 years.
Early in his career, Reed volunteered in the Peace Corps as a high school math teacher in Eswatini (Swaziland). His commitment to education continues as an active philanthropist in the field, serving on the board of several educational non-profits, including KIPP, City Fund, Kahn Academy, and the Charter School Growth Fund. Reed was President of the California State Board of Education
He is also a board member of Bloomberg and Anthropic, both private companies. As a passion, Reed purchased Powder Mountain and is leading the expansion of the private real estate as CEO
He holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Bowdoin College and an M.S.C.S. in artificial intelligence from Stanford University.