Press Release - Readout of President-Elect Donald J. Trump's Meeting with Tech Leaders

(New York, NY) - President-elect Donald J. Trump today met with more than a dozen of the greatest tech leaders in the country to begin a conversation and partnership in order to spark innovation and create more jobs in the U.S., particularly for working Americans.

In addition to the private sector leaders in attendance, the President-elect was joined by Vice President-elect Mike Pence, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, Peter Thiel, Reince Priebus, Steve Bannon, Wilbur Ross, Gary Cohn and Stephen Miller. During the meeting the President-elect discussed a wide range of issues impacting both American workers and American companies, including specific innovative solutions that have been blocked by narrow thinking in Washington.

The President-elect expressed an open mind and willingness to listen, which was greatly received by the industry leaders in attendance.

During the Tech Summit, the following topics were discussed:

• Creating more jobs for American workers
• Climinating barriers preventing American companies from doing business in other countries
• America's competitive trade dynamic and market access with China
• Cutting taxes
• Repatriation of American profits kept overseas by prohibitive tax rates
• Improving our physical and digital infrastructures
• Protecting our intellectual property rights
• Improving America's cybersecurity
• Updating our government software systems
• Technology in schools,
• The need for greater vocational education opportunities
• Reducing bureaucracy
• Introducing greater accountability in the government procurement process.

The leaders in attendance also praised the ingenuity and energy of the American workforce, and President-elect Trump suggested reconvening the tech leaders again in the future, perhaps as frequently as every quarter.

Tech leaders in attendance included:

• Jeff Bezos, Amazon
• Safra Catz, Oracle
• Tim Cook, Apple
• Alex Karp, Palantir
• Brian Krzanich, Intel
• Elon Musk, Tesla
• Satya Nadella, Microsoft
• Larry Page, Google
• Chuck Robbins, Cisco
• Ginni Rometty, IBM
• Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook
• Eric Schmidt, Google