Hazelwood Empire AI governance

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Empire AI’s board lists 17 names. Kim Hazelwood is on it as “Tech Executive”. Tom Secunda, a Bloomberg co-founder, is Chair.
Two seats are observers: the Simons Foundation and NYSTAR, the New York state science and technology office.
The board mixes member universities, a funder, the state and independent experts.

Empire AI is New York’s state-backed AI computing consortium. This page lists its board and staff.

The board is “composed of nationally recognized leaders in academic research, technology and public policy”. (Our Governance)
The board and team are “expanding access to computing power typically available only to large corporations”. (Our Governance)
Most seats are member universities: CUNY, Rochester, Buffalo, NYU, RPI, Cornell, Icahn, SUNY and Columbia. (Board of Directors)
The other seats are NY Creates, Liz Fine Associates, B Capital, Kim Hazelwood (“Tech Executive”) and the Chair. Two are observers. (Board of Directors)
Staff: 13 people, including a Director of Research Computing, six system administrators and a hardware technician. (Empire AI Team)

The organization’s own page.

The page gives no terms, no voting rules and no selection process. The 2025 board release gives the seat totals.

Source file: wiki/sources/Hazelwood Empire AI governance.md, updated 2026-10-26.