Roy Bahat is the head of Bloomberg Beta, an early-stage venture firm backed by Bloomberg L.P. that was the first venture capital fund to focus on the future of work, and also the first fund to focus on artificial intelligence. He also serves on the faculty at U.C. Berkeley's Haas School of Business. Roy was a commissioner on the California Governor's Future of Work Commission (following work he did with think-tank New America to understand the 10-20 year future of work and automation in America). He was named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business, has served in government, and led a non-profit in addition to his work at established corporations and day zero startups. He serves on the board or as an advisor to several non-profits including Stanford's Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, and the Economic Security Project. Roy graduated from Harvard College, where he ran the student public service nonprofit. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University.