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Valerie

Chapman

CEO, Co-Founder, Ruth AI

Valerie Chapman is the Co-Founder and CEO of Ruth AI, an AI-powered career platform building agents to close the $1.6 trillion gender wage gap through personal branding, salary negotiation, and career advancement.

Her Fortune op-ed on the AI gender gap, informed by a conversation with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, has become a defining piece in the national conversation around women and artificial intelligence.

Valerie has generated over 120 million impressions across platforms teaching women how to use AI and has been featured in Fortune, Ad Age, CNBC, and Harper's Bazaar.

She has hosted hackathons at San Francisco's Transamerica Pyramid and New York's Hearst Tower in partnership with OpenAI and HearstLab, bringing together women builders to create AI tools for social good.

A graduate of New York University, Valerie is based in San Francisco.

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