Our Team

Our team brings together the architects of hyperscale cloud infrastructure, pioneers of flexible AI computing, senior grid scientists, and the executives and diplomats who have shaped global energy policy.

Dr. Varun Sivaram

Dr. Varun Sivaram

CEO and Founder

A former Fortune 500 C-suite energy executive, senior U.S. diplomat, Rhodes Scholar, physicist, and author of three books, Dr. Sivaram is one of the world's foremost authorities on energy technologies.

Prof. Ayse Coskun

Prof. Ayse Coskun

Chief Scientist

Prof. Coskun, Director of Boston University’s Center for Information and Systems Engineering, has pioneered the field of flexible AI and high-performance computing to bolster the power grid.

Shayan Sengupta

Shayan Sengupta

Head of Engineering

Shayan brings two decades of hyperscale cloud, AI, and hardware leadership—from Amazon to Intel—supporting infrastructure powering hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue across mission-critical workloads.

Aroon Vijaykar

Aroon Vijaykar

Chief Commercial Officer

Aroon brings experience as the chief executive of AEE Solar, head of corporate development at publicly traded Sunrun, and PE investor at Partners Group to lead commercial strategy and partnerships.

Mansi Shah

Mansi Shah

Head of Product

Mansi Shah is a technology leader with nearly two decades of experience building large-scale data and infrastructure platforms. She previously served as a chief technologist at VMware, where she led enterprise data products and distributed systems initiatives. She brings deep experience in AI infrastructure, energy systems, and complex software platforms.

The Emerald AI team

AI researchers, grid engineers, data center operators, and energy policy specialists — one problem, approached from every direction.

Meet the Full Team

The Emerald AI leadership team

Recent Recognition

Emerald AI named to the TIME100 Most Influential CompaniesEmerald AI recognised as a Bloomberg Technology Pioneer 2026Emerald AI named a 2026 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer

Board of Directors

Rob Toews

Rob Toews

Partner, Radical Ventures; Founding Investor, Emerald AI
Markus Specks

Markus Specks

Co-Founder & CEO, Aventurine Partner
John Tough

John Tough

Founder and Managing Director, Energize Capital
David Katz

David Katz

Partner, Radical Ventures (Board Observer)
Zachary Bogue

Zachary Bogue

Co-Founder and Managing Partner, DCVC (Board Observer)
Christina Buchanan

Christina Buchanan

Principal, NVIDIA NVentures (Board Observer)
Clay Dumas

Clay Dumas

General Partner, Lowercarbon Capital (Board Observer)
Shayle Kann

Shayle Kann

Managing Partner, Frontier Fund, Energy Impact Partners (Board Observer)

Institutional Investors

Amplo
Collective Global
CRV
Earthshot Ventures
Emerson Collective
Energy Impact Partners
IQT
Lowercarbon Capital
Marunouchi Innovation Partners
Neotribe
Radical Ventures
Sabanci Climate Ventures
Trust Ventures
ADVentures
Aramco Ventures
Eaton
GE Vernova
JERA Ventures
Nationalgrid
NVidia
RWE Americas
Salesforce Ventures
Samsung Ventures
Siemens

Select Individual Investors

Jeff Dean

Jeff Dean

Chief Scientist, Google
Prof. Fei-Fei Li

Prof. Fei-Fei Li

Professor, Stanford University, CEO World Labs
John Doerr

John Doerr

Chairman, Kleiner Perkins
Malcolm Turnbull

Malcolm Turnbull

29th Prime Minister of Australia
Secretary John Kerry

Secretary John Kerry

Founder, Galvanize
Kate Brandt

Kate Brandt

Chief Sustainability Officer, Google
Rich Lesser

Rich Lesser

Chairman, Boston Consulting Group
Tom Steyer

Tom Steyer

Founder, Galvanize
Mark Gallogly

Mark Gallogly

Co-Founder, Three Cairns Group
Chase Lochmiller

Chase Lochmiller

CEO, Crusoe
Jonathan Frankle

Jonathan Frankle

Chief AI Scientist, Databricks
Lukas Biewald

Lukas Biewald

CEO, Weights and Biases
Oliver Cameron

Oliver Cameron

Co-Founder & CEO, Odyssey
Kiran Bhatraju

Kiran Bhatraju

CEO, Arcadia Power
Prof. Will Chueh

Prof. Will Chueh

Director, Stanford University Precourt Energy Institute

Strategic Advisory Board

Select Advisors

Secretary Gina Raimondo

Secretary Gina Raimondo

40th Secretary of Commerce
David Rousseau

David Rousseau

President, Salt River Project
Jason Bordoff

Jason Bordoff

Founding Director, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University SIPA
Arushi Sharma Frank

Arushi Sharma Frank

Fmr Tesla Energy Policy Lead; CEO, Luminary Strategies
Jesse Jenkins

Jesse Jenkins

Associate professor at Princeton Univ. Co-founder at Firma Power
Sean Kelly

Sean Kelly

CEO, Amperon
Anna Patterson

Anna Patterson

CEO, Ceramic.ai
Gaurav Desai

Gaurav Desai

Google X
Richard Stuebi

Richard Stuebi

Boston University
Peter Hans Hirschboeck

Peter Hans Hirschboeck

Founder & Managing Director, impactECI