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Nebius Names Dan Lawrence to Lead Expansion in the US as Senior Vice President and General Manager for the Americas
AMSTERDAM--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Nebius (NASDAQ: NBIS), the AI cloud company, today announced the appointment of Dan Lawrence as Senior Vice President and
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[{"type":"text","content":" AMSTERDAM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nNebius (NASDAQ: NBIS), the AI cloud company, today announced the appointment of Dan Lawrence as Senior Vice President and General Manager for the Americas. Lawrence will lead the company’s rapid North American expansion and scale its commercial organization to meet unprecedented demand for purpose-built AI infrastructure.\n\n\nBased in the Boston area, Lawrence is tasked with significantly scaling Nebius’s regional go-to-market engine across four key customer segments: strategic, enterprise, ISV and AI-native. As Nebius continues building out gigawatts of capacity in the US, Lawrence will ramp up the teams and operational foundations required to capture demand in the company’s key market and support customers deploying next-generation AI workloads.\n\n\nLawrence brings deep experience building and operating cloud businesses at multi-billion-dollar scale. Most recently, he served as Senior Vice President of Global Sales for Cloud at Akamai Technologies, where he built the go-to-market model and rapidly scaled its compute business to approach $1 billion in revenue. Prior to Akamai, Lawrence held senior leadership roles at Amazon Web Services, managing global enterprise engagements and supporting hyperscale cloud, AI and next-generation infrastructure businesses.\n\n\nMarc Boroditsky, Chief Revenue Officer at Nebius, said:\n\n\n“The Americas is a fantastic market for Nebius, and Dan is joining us at a pivotal moment as we deploy significant new compute capacity across the US and expand our sales and distribution. He brings a strong track record of building high-performing go-to-market organizations and successfully scaling cloud businesses to the billion-dollar mark. As we rapidly expand our footprint in the Americas, Dan’s hyperscaler experience and builder mindset are exactly what we need to accelerate our growth in the world’s largest market for AI.”\n\n\nDan Lawrence, Senior Vice President and General Manager for the Americas at Nebius, said:\n\n\n“We’re at an inflection point in computing, and powering the next wave of AI requires a fundamentally different kind of cloud. Nebius stands out for three reasons. First, the team has the rare engineering DNA to design and operate the entire stack. Second, the company’s strong financial position allows us to deploy capital and capacity at a unique scale....