Meet the team

Chris Dolan is Chief Data Center Officer at Crusoe, where he leads the development and scaling of large-scale, high-density AI infrastructure. With more than 25 years of experience across the full digital infrastructure lifecycle—from site development and capital-intensive construction to operational execution and platform growth—Chris has built and scaled digital infrastructure platforms serving the rapidly expanding demands of cloud and AI. He co-founded and served as CEO of 365 Main, a market-leading data center platform that was successfully acquired by Digital Realty Trust. At Crusoe, his combination of development expertise, operational leadership, and track record of building institutional-scale infrastructure platforms positions him at the forefront of the transformation of data centers into the AI factories of the future. Chris holds a Bachelor of Architecture from The Catholic University of America.

Jamey Seely is Chief Legal Officer at Crusoe, where she oversees the company's enterprise governance, corporate strategy, capital markets matters, and global legal operations. A seasoned executive with decades of experience spanning the technology, energy, and industrial sectors, Seely excels at navigating complex financing, M&A, and public company transitions—including leading major IPOs. She is an award winning global Chief Legal Officer including recognition by the Denver Business Journal as one of the Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Business. She holds a J.D. from Southern Methodist University and a Professional Certificate in Energy Innovation from Stanford University.

Matt Field is Chief Real Estate Officer at Crusoe, where he leads the company’s site acquisition, development, and expansion strategy for high-performance data centers. He is responsible for scaling Crusoe’s physical footprint to support the next generation of AI compute infrastructure. With 40 years experience in real estate development, capital markets, and infrastructure deployment, he is instrumental in identifying and securing strategic locations that enable Crusoe to build efficient, scalable, sustainable, and energy-aligned data centers. Prior to joining Crusoe, Matt  was Co-CEO of TMG Partners, one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s largest developers, where he held senior leadership roles in real estate and project finance, driving complex infrastructure projects from concept to completion. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Colorado.

Michael Gordon is Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Crusoe. Prior to Crusoe, he was the COO & CFO at MongoDB, where he helped grow revenue 50-fold from $40 million to $2 billion, scaled the business model to generate meaningful operating leverage and led the Company’s IPO. Before MongoDB, Michael was the COO & CFO at Yodle and before that was a Managing Director in the Telecom investment banking group at Merrill Lynch. Michael started his career in brand management at Procter & Gamble. He serves on the boards of UiPath and Tech:NYC and is a Board Member, Emeritus at Share Our Strength, one of the nation's leading anti-hunger organizations. Michael is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was a David Rockefeller Fellow with the Partnership for New York City. He holds an A.B. from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Nitin Perumbeti is Chief Technology Officer at Crusoe, spearheading the technology strategy and software architecture driving the company's full-stack AI cloud and infrastructure. He previously co-founded Bright.com, an NLP-powered job aggregation and matching platform. Bright was acquired by LinkedIn in 2014 and was LinkedIn’s largest acquisition to date. He later joined Polychain Capital to advise startups in the cryptocurrency space. Perumbeti holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.

Tara Green is Chief People Officer at Crusoe, where she leads the company’s organizational and workplace strategy, talent acquisition, culture development, and global human resources operations. A technology industry veteran with more than 25 years of experience in people operations, Tara specializes in helping high-growth startups and enterprises scale effectively. Prior to Crusoe, she served as People leader at the autonomous vehicle startup Aurora, guiding the organization through rapid scaling, a major acquisition, and an IPO. She also held leadership roles at Originate, Google, eBay, and Excite@Home, fostering high-performance, learning-oriented team environments. Tara holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Queen’s University, and an MBA from Ivey Business School at Western University.

Tim Loos is Chief Accounting Officer at Crusoe, where he leads accounting, financial reporting and treasury functions. He is responsible for building the financial infrastructure behind one of the fastest-scaling companies in AI — a business adding gigawatts of capacity and the capital structure to match. Tim brings more than 20 years of experience in various accounting and  finance roles, including the SVP of Finance and Accounting at Montage Resources, where he also served as the Company’s principal accounting officer. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance from John Carroll University and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh, and is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Virginia.

Alon Yariv is Vice President, Business Development and Country Manager, Israel for Crusoe. He leads Crusoe's business development team, where he manages large compute initiatives, and partnerships with model labs, building on Atero's KV cache technology to deliver faster, more efficient inference for Crusoe Cloud customers. He co-founded Atero in 2024 with Omer Landau, betting that GPU memory optimization would be the key to unlocking real inference performance at scale. Crusoe acquired Atero, drawn to Alon's team and their shared conviction that vertical integration, and an energy-first approach, would define the winners in AI infrastructure. Alon built his career in Israel's tech scene. He holds both a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science from Tel Aviv University.

Andrew Likens is Vice President of Energy Infrastructure & Development at Crusoe. His interest in energy took root in the summer of 2009, leasing prospective acreage for Petrohawk in Louisiana’s Haynesville Shale. He spent the next decade building land and commercial development expertise across North Dakota, Montana, and Oklahoma, working for leading exploration and production companies. Andrew joined Crusoe in 2019, bringing a landman's instinct for finding and securing the resources big infrastructure needs. Today he leads Crusoe's push into new power sources—including a 1.5 GW nuclear-powered data center campus with Blue Energy in Victoria, Texas. He's a Certified Professional Landman and holds degrees in Finance and Business Administration from the University of San Diego.

Andrew Sweatman is Vice President, Manufacturing at Crusoe where he's helping build what he calls the largest infrastructure project in human history—the factories, components, and systems that keep Crusoe's AI data centers humming. Based in Denver, he's focused on scaling manufacturing to match the pace of the AI buildout. He built his career at Amazon before pivoting into manufacturing leadership, sharpening his eye for operational excellence at scale. Andrew served as an officer in the United States Marine Corp, and earned a Bachelor of Arts from San Francisco State University.

Celeste Grebe is Senior Vice President of Finance at Crusoe, where she leads financial strategy and planning to support the company's growth in energy-first, high-performance AI infrastructure. With over 15 years of finance leadership experience across cloud and data center businesses, Celeste most recently served as Vice President of Finance at CoreWeave. Prior to CoreWeave, she spent more than a decade at Microsoft, where she was CFO and General Manager of the Cloud & AI Data Center and Supply Chain organizations, leading a global finance organization through one of the largest infrastructure buildouts in the industry. Earlier in her career, she served as Vice President of Finance, Operations and Business Intelligence at PicMonkey and began her career at Goldman Sachs. Celeste earned a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Fordham University.

Deva Santiago is Vice President, Talent Acquisition at Crusoe where she's built the recruiting engine behind the company's rapid growth—Crusoe has welcomed well over 1,000 employees under her watch. She is an experienced executive talent leader who has partnered with some of the Internet's leading founders and investors - including Sequoia Capital, SV Angel and Y Combinator - to build enduring, high-growth companies. Deva has worked with Dropbox, Weebly, Rippling and Tailscale to scale organizations from initial teams to thousand-person companies. With an accomplished record in management team recruiting, talent organization development and high-scale company building, she has been a key asset to both enterprise and consumer Internet companies competing for talent in a fast-changing market. Deva studied at the University of San Francisco.

Erwan Menard is Senior Vice President of Product at Crusoe, where he leads the innovation and scaling of Crusoe Cloud to deliver climate-aligned, high-performance AI infrastructure and managed services. With over 25 years of technology leadership experience, Erwan previously served as Director of Product Management for Cloud AI at Google Cloud, overseeing  the Vertex AI portfolio and Gemini Enterprise. Prior to Google, he was the CEO of Elastifile, a software-defined storage company acquired by Google. His deep industry expertise spans executive roles at several global startups and infrastructure leadership positions at Alcatel and Hewlett-Packard. Erwan earned a Master of Science at the Institut National des Telecommunications / Telecom Sud Paris.

Jamie McGrath is Senior Vice President, Data Center Operations & Construction at Crusoe, where he oversees the deployment, management, and continuous operation of the company's high-density computing infrastructure. With extensive leadership experience in critical infrastructure and mission-critical facilities, Jamie is responsible for scaling Crusoe's digital footprint while maintaining peak operational efficiency. He co-founded 365 Main and served as its COO, eventually selling the company to Digital Realty in 2010. He then led a complex carve-out of a data center portfolio from Equinix, ran that business for four years, and sold the portfolio. Jamie went on to advise Crusoe for three years before joining the operating team to build the Data Infrastructure Group. His deep operational expertise ensures Crusoe’s climate-aligned data centers deliver maximum uptime and performance for AI workloads. Jamie studied civil engineering and construction management at The Catholic University of America.

Jay Maloney is Senior Vice President, Cloud Sales at Crusoe, where he brings over 20 years of sales leadership to and leads the Cloud sales and partnership organization. He previously served as Chief Revenue Officer at Imply and Vice President of Sales at Rockset(acquired by OpenAI), leading the sales organizations at both companies, with additional sales leadership roles at Amazon Web Services and MapR Technologies (acquired by HPE). Earlier, Jay spent over a decade at Oracle in progressively senior enterprise sales roles. Jay is known for building high-performing sales teams and turning complex technical products into clear customer value. He holds a B.A. from the University of Southern California and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

John Adams is Senior Vice President of Power Infrastructure at Crusoe, where he leads the company’s strategy, development, and execution of scalable, sustainable, and resilient power infrastructure to support the continued growth of AI data centers. John has more than 40 years of experience leading some of the most dynamic businesses in the power generation sector. His prior roles include serving as President and CEO of TexGen Power, COO at Blackstone’s Kindle Energy, and EVP of Calpine, where he led operations maintenance and construction for the 30,000 MW, 95 power plant organization. John also held leadership roles at Mitsubishi Power and Foster Wheeler, and has built extensive experience in operational, financial, and M&A aspects of the energy business. He holds a Bachelor  of Engineering from Michigan Technological University.

Kyle Sosnowski is Senior Vice President of Software Engineering at Crusoe. He leads the cloud engineering organization responsible for building and operating the platform behind Crusoe's AI infrastructure - from large-scale GPU clusters to the cloud services customers rely on to train and deploy frontier AI models. Prior to Crusoe, Kyle co-founded Curated, a high-consideration shopping platform backed by CapitalG and Forerunner Ventures, and earlier pioneered some of the first machine learning–based recruiting applications at LinkedIn. With more than 15 years of engineering leadership experience across startups and public companies, Kyle brings deep expertise in scaling teams and systems through periods of rapid growth. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Southern Illinois University.

Nader Pakfar is General Counsel, Real Estate at Crusoe, where he leads the legal team responsible for the company's digital infrastructure business worldwide. A real estate and structured finance lawyer with decades of experience in complex corporate transactions, Nader directs the company's legal execution across powered land acquisitions, energization, leasing, and financings. Prior to joining Crusoe, he was Co-founder and Managing Partner of SPC LLP, and practiced at AmLaw 20 firms. Nader is a Fellow of the American College of Mortgage Attorneys. He holds a B.A. from UCLA and a J.D., cum laude, from UC Hastings College of the Law.

Nick Sammut is Senior Vice President of Strategic Finance and Corporate Development at Crusoe. In this role, he leads the company’s capital strategy, allocation, financial planning, and corporate development initiatives including M&A and partnerships with a wide range of companies. Sammut plays a critical role in navigating capital markets, financing structure designs, and strategic joint ventures to fund the company’s AI factories and large-scale compute deployments. His focus combines financial engineering with digital infrastructure scaling, ensuring Crusoe secures the capital velocity needed to sustain its rapid growth at the intersection of energy and advanced computing. Before Crusoe, Nick worked at Brookfield Asset Management for 8 years, focused on investing in the AI ecosystem. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Northeastern University.

Ron Hansra is Vice President of Customer Experience at Crusoe. His organization helps customers successfully deploy, operate, and grow some of the world’s most demanding AI training and inference workloads on Crusoe Cloud. The team works across the customer lifecycle: from onboarding and technical support to reliability, adoption, retention, and expansion. Ron brings more than two decades of experience building and leading customer-facing and technical organizations across cloud infrastructure and enterprise technology. His leadership experience spans pre-sales, Customer Success, Support, Solutions, Partnerships, IT, and DevOps, with a focus on customer growth. Prior to Crusoe, he held leadership roles at Platform9, Narvar, Mirantis, and Dell Technologies, including as Vice President of Customer Operations at Platform9, where he helped build and scale the Customer Engineering organization. Ron holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from San Jose State University, and degrees in Physics and Mathematics.

Sara Axelrod is Vice President, Public Affairs, Government Relations and Sustainability at Crusoe. She leads the company’s engagement with policymakers, communities and key stakeholders as Crusoe builds the infrastructure powering the next generation of artificial intelligence. Sara oversees government affairs, public policy, public affairs, community engagement, economic development and sustainability initiatives to help advance the development of responsible AI infrastructure growth. All this while creating meaningful benefits for the communities where Crusoe operates and contributing to a reliable and affordable energy future. Having spent over a decade in Washington DC and leading sustainability and public affairs for Fortune 500 companies, Sara brings extensive experience navigating complex policy and stakeholder environments, building partnerships across government, industry and communities. She holds a BBA from George Washington University and an MBA from Texas McCombs.

Scott Williams is Vice President of Energy at Crusoe, and specializes in building unique infrastructure at the intersection of energy and AI. A seasoned executive and innovator in the energy and infrastructure sectors, Scott served as Chief Commercial Officer at FTC Solar, Inc., and as the Director of Strategy and Origination at Cypress Creek Renewables, where he was instrumental in driving the commercial growth and strategic vision for renewable energy assets across the U.S. A Fulbright Scholar, his career began with foundational roles at SunEdison and off-grid solar and storage development work in Tanzania, Indonesia, and Swaziland, highlighting a deep commitment to global energy access. He has since become a regular voice on panels tackling the energy challenges of the AI buildout. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Scott's work delivers on Crusoe's bet that clean, renewable power can scale alongside AI.

Sharieff Mansour is Vice President, Marketing at Crusoe, where he has built the company's marketing team from scratch. He also led the opening of Crusoe's Bellevue, WA office, now home to teams spanning marketing, product and design, go-to-market, and engineering. With over 20 years in go-to-market leadership, Sharieff previously served as General Manager of Marketing for Microsoft Azure's Data and AI businesses. And prior to Microsoft, he worked in venture capital at Orange Ventures and Charles River Ventures, focused on enterprise software and mobile technologies. Colleagues point to his strength in business strategy and customer storytelling, along with a habit of putting people first. He earned a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, and an MBA from The Wharton School.

Sigurd Anderson is Senior Vice President of Global Real Estate at Crusoe, where he is responsible for scaling the physical footprint that Crusoe's sustainable, climate-aligned data centers require. He leads the organization’s acquisition, development and portfolio management functions, in conjunction with building local relationships around the world. Sig brings deep expertise in digital infrastructure development and international real estate strategy. His leadership enables Crusoe to expand its high-density AI computing operations efficiently, bringing hyperscale data centers to market with speed and environmental responsibility. Sig holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Minnesota.

Stephen Martin is Global Risk & Compliance Officer at Crusoe. He helps navigate challenging domestic and international regulatory landscapes and provides practical risk and compliance guidance for a company building at Crusoe’s speed. Stephen is responsible for managing Crusoe’s compliance program, including anti-corruption, sanctions and international trade. His team also handles legal responsibilities for employment/HR, litigation, internal investigations, environmental, government affairs, ESG and international strategy/new country entry. With significant experience in government, corporate in-house and private practice along with business management, Stephen believes that the most effective legal and compliance teams are embedded early, trusted by the business/operations teams, and willing to give clear, practical business-first advice that keeps momentum without creating exposure. Stephen holds a Bachelor of Arts and MBA from the University of Denver, a JD from Creighton School of Law, and an LLM from Georgetown Law.