Krishna Rao

CFO, Anthropic

Krishna has served as the CFO of Anthropic since 2024. He is a strategic finance leader with deep experience in capital markets, FP&A, corporate and business development, and private equity. He has also been a fellow at Tidemark since 2021.

Krishna was previously the CFO of Fanatics Commerce and the CFO of Cedar. Prior to that, he held a variety of finance leadership roles at Airbnb, including helping to navigate the pandemic and take the company public. Krishna has worked as an investor in the private equity group at Blackstone and began his career as a consultant at Bain & Company.

Krishna holds an A.B., summa cum laude, in Economics from Harvard College and a J.D. from Yale Law School.