Anastasis Germanidis is co-founder and co-CEO of Runway, where he focuses on research in video generation and multimodal world simulation. His site and Runway's February 2026 leadership announcement document his move from CTO to co-CEO alongside Cristóbal Valenzuela.12
At a glance
- Current role
- Co-founder and co-CEO
- Company
- Runway
- Sources cited
- 2
- Profile reviewed
Accomplishments
Runway
Germanidis co-founded Runway and long served as CTO. In February 2026 Runway announced he would become co-CEO while Kamil Sindi became CTO, with Germanidis focusing on research for video models and simulators.12
Timeline
Where they work
- Runway 4 people in the wiki
Related people
- Yuval AlalufAlso at Runway
- Cristóbal ValenzuelaAlso at Runway
- Patrick EsserAlso at Runway
- David ForsythImage, video, and 3D generation
- Stefano ErmonImage, video, and 3D generation
- Sanja FidlerImage, video, and 3D generation
- Yang SongImage, video, and 3D generation
- Jonathan ShenImage, video, and 3D generation
- Patrick von PlatenImage, video, and 3D generation
- Jascha Sohl-DicksteinImage, video, and 3D generation
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References
2 sources · profile reviewed Oct 23, 2026 · data updated Oct 23, 2026