Tatiana Spottiswoode gave testimony at a House Judiciary committee meeting investigating the impact of forced arbitration clauses against victims of sexual harassment and assault o. Photo: Video still from the House Committee on the Judiciary's YouTube channel
Zia Chishti has resigned from his billion-dollar artificial intelligence company Afiniti after the allegations emerged at a congressional hearing.
Multimillionaire tech entrepreneur Zia Chishti has stepped down from his roles in the AI software firm Afiniti, following accusations of sexually assault revealed by a former employee at a U.S. congressional hearing on Nov. 16.
In a harrowing testimony, Columbia law student Tatiana Spottiswoode accused the influential businessman of sexually abusing, harassing, and physically beating her during a business trip.
Pakistani-American Chishti is the founder of the billion-dollar artificial intelligence unicorn Afiniti and business process outsourcing company TRG. He also founded the company behind Invisalign dental braces, which is now valued at $47 billion.
The allegations were heard at a House Judiciary committee meeting investigating the impacts of forced arbitration clauses against victims of sexual harassment and assault. Spottiswoode, who began working at Afiniti in 2016, said that Chishti sexually assaulted and beat her on a business trip to Brazil in 2017.
“I went to his room where he beat me while having sex with me. I told him he was hurting me. He said, ‘Good.’ He...
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