Garrett Lord

Garrett Lord is the co-founder and CEO of Handshake, the career network for the AI economy. Since founding the company in 2014, Garrett has grown Handshake into the platform of choice for over 20 million job seekers, 1,600 US universities, and 1 million employers, including all of the Fortune 500. In 2025, Garrett launched Handshake AI, which connects domain experts on the Handshake network with leading AI labs to provide the human judgment necessary for developing and evaluating frontier AI models.