Chris Akin

COO of Apollo Research. We study whether and how scheming and deception will arise in future AI systems, develop ways to detect and mitigate them, and advise policymakers on the risks.

I run the operational side of the company: legal, finance, hiring, commercial, and corporate governance. My job is to build the infrastructure that lets our researchers do their best work and lets the world’s leading AI labs and safety institutes rely on what we produce.

Before Apollo, I spent fifteen years scaling operations and commercial teams across high-growth and social impact ventures, from launching consumer brands in East Africa to advising clients from SMEs to the Fortune 500.