02/26/2025 at 10:00AM
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene a nominations hearing for Michael Kratsios, nominee to be Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Mark Meador, nominee to be a Federal Trade Commissioner, at 10:00 AM EST on Tuesday, February 25, 2025.
Nominees:
- Michael Kratsios, of South Carolina, to be Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy
- Mark Meador, of Virginia, to be a Federal Trade Commissioner
Kratsios was a Trump technology advisor and is now managing director at Scale AI, Inc., which specializes in training data for AI. met with Elon Musk in December.
Kratsios, 38, grew up in South Carolina and graduated magna cum laude in 2008 from Princeton with a Bachelor of Arts degree in politics. He has no other degrees. While in college, he was an intern for Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). After school, he was a Wall Street analyst before working in an investment fund run by Peter Thiel.
In 2024, the Pentagon chose Scale AI to aid its testing and evaluation of A.I. models that might one day help warfighters make decisions.
Meador’s confirmation would give the FTC a Republican majority.