Sharon AI Launches Cloud Media Tech with On-Demand GPU Service

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About Sharon AI

Sharon AI was born out of its founders significant experience in deploying large-scale energy and compute infrastructure, USA energy markets and infrastructure asset management.

AI & Cloud Storage Forecast Growth

“Deploying current ChatGPT into every search done by Google would require 512,820 A100 HGX servers with a total of 4,102,568 A100 GPUs,” they write. “The total cost of these servers and networking exceeds $100 billion of Capex alone…”

Dylan Patel and Afzal Ahmad in SemiAnalysis.

Introducing Our Team

Wolf Schubert

  • CEO

Wolf Schubert is the CEO of Sharon AI. His career has spanned over 25 years across technology, capital markets and risk management (Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Merrill Lynch). Most recently he ran part of the institutional business at BlockFi, a fintech startup. Before that he held senior roles at Vista Equity Partners and Strategic Value Partners, where he was Chief Risk Officer. 

Nick Hughes Jones

  • CCO

Nick has over 18 years experience across financial markets, technology and energy infrastructure, starting his career at multi-billion dollar asset manager Bell Financial Group (ASX:BFG) where he served for 12 years before building and managing 100 modular data centers across 200MW of energy infrastructure in the USA and Australia at Mawson Infrastructure Group Inc (NASDAQ:MIGI).

Andrew Leece

  • COO

Andrew began his career with Macquarie Bank (ASX:MQG) in 2007 where he served for 8 years in the Corporate and Asset Finance division. He then embarked on several entrepreneurial endeavors developing aviation leasing technology whilst serving on the board of ISI Australia, a provider of mainframe and cloud platform solutions. Andrew was CEO of Distributed Storage Solutions prior to its acquisition by Sharon AI.

Tim Broadfoot

  • CFO

Tim has over a decade of experience across corporate finance, accounting, business, asset management and operations in both

public and private companies. Tim most recently served as Chief Corporate Officer for Mawson Infrastructure Group Inc (NASDQ:MIGI), responsible for building and managing over 120MW of data center infrastructure across the USA and Australia.

Nathanial Marsh

  • DC Operations Manager

Nathanial has over 7 years experience in IT infrastructure management, having developed his skills across diverse roles from technical support to Data Centre Operations Management. Previously at Australia’s largest hosting company, Nathanial spent the last 3 years managing cloud data center and GPU as a Service operations environments at Distributed Storage Solutions.

Scott Donnelly

  • Ai Systems Administrator

Scott has over 6 years of experience in large-scale IT infrastructure project management. He began his career  in technical support at Australia’s largest hosting provider, where he managed thousands of servers within the data center operations team. Scott spent the last 3 years in server build, lifecycle, provisioning, maintenance and network infrastructure at Distributed Storage Solutions.

Board of Directors

The Sharon AI Board of Directors has extensive experience across US energy infrastructure, technology & financial markets

Wolf Schubert

Goldman Sachs / Vista Equity
Partners - Financial Markets

Wolf Schubert is the CEO of Sharon AI. His career has spanned over 25 years across technology, capital markets and risk management. Most recently he ran part of the institutional business at BlockFi, a fintech startup. Before that he held senior roles at Vista Equity Partners and Strategic Value Partners, where he was Chief Risk Officer. Wolf began his career at Oliver Wyman before spending several years as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Merrill Lynch. Born and raised in Germany, he holds undergraduate degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in Aerospace Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and a masters degree from Princeton University in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

Alastair Cairns

Non-Executive Director
Financial Markets & Technology

Alastair Cairns is a seasoned executive whose three-decade career spans technology, asset & wealth management, and consulting. Alastair is currently the Head of Asset Management, North America at Linedata, based in New York and Boston. Previously, he spent five years at Addepar, a company that provides reporting and analytics software to wealth managers, where he was head of insights and marketplace. He joined Addepar from Credit Suisse, where he held executive positions for nearly a decade in strategy, product, and sales roles in asset management and private banking. Before that he was head of business development at Silver Point Capital, a credit hedge fund. Alastair began his career at McKinsey & Company, where he rose to partner in the financial services practice. Born and raised in Canada, he holds degrees in Physics and Economics from Queen’s University in Canada and an MA in Economics from the University of Chicago.

James Manning

Mawson Infrastructure Group
Energy Infrastructure

James is the Chairman of Sharon AI. His career has spanned over 22 years across technology, finance, property development and funds management. Most recently he was the CEO and Founder of Nasdaq listed Mawson Infrastructure Group, where he built over 100 Modular Data Centers across 200MW of energy in the USA. James has completed a Master of Business (Finance) and a Masters in Property Development from the University of Technology Sydney as well as a Bachelor of Accounting from ACU. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Company Directors (FAICD), and a member of Institute of Public Accountants (IPA).

Our Advisors

We are advised by a growing team of experts from both academia and business

Professor Michael E. Mueller

Advisory Board

Associate Chair and Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Director, Graduate Certificate in Computational Science and Engineering. Associated Faculty, Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering. Associated Faculty, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment Princeton University. Faculty Researcher, High Performance Algorithms and Complex Fluids Group, Computational Science Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

Luc Betbeder-Matibet

Advisory Board

Luc Betbeder-Matibet is a nationally recognised subject matter expert in High-Performance Research Computing, Research Data practices and shared Research Infrastructure services. He is Vice-President of AeRo (Australia's eResearch Organisation) and co-chair of the eResearch Australasian peak Annual Conference. He is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in UNSW Faculty of Medicine Centre for Big Data and has been a Visiting Scientist with the Data61 Visual Analytics Team in Australia's National Science Agency CSIRO. Luc is currently the Executive Director Research Technology Services at UNSW, a shared services function that he established which is responsible for providing Research Computing and Research Data to 3100 academic staff.

Tal Cohen

Advisory Board/Business Development

Prior to joining Sharon AI, Tal served as CEO of Kraken US (Payward Ventures Inc). Here he applied for licenses in all relevant US States and territories, and obtained Kraken's first 17 Money Transmitter Licenses, while growing the business rapidly in terms of trading volumes and customers. Prior to Kraken, Tal worked in a series of world leading organizations including McKinsey & Co, Google and EY. Tal is a serial entrepreneur who co-founded three start ups and led them to exit events, graduating from Hebrew University with a Law Degree.

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