Crusoe, a supplier of vertically integrated AI infrastructure, has announced the addition of Erwan Menard as Senior Vice President of Product Management. Menard is a key strategic hire who will further Crusoe’s goal of providing high-performance, sustainable, and innovative AI infrastructure solutions through Crusoe Cloud. He brings a track record of success and a wealth of experience in creating and scaling cutting-edge AI and cloud technologies at Google Cloud.
“Crusoe will benefit greatly from Erwan’s domain expertise in driving AI product strategy,” said Chase Lochmiller, Crusoe’s CEO and co-founder. He played a key role at Google Cloud in establishing Vertex AI as a premier platform for developers and builders looking to implement AI on a large scale. His leadership and vision will be crucial in directing our Product group as we grow the capabilities of our Crusoe Cloud platform internationally and satisfy the growing customer demand for new services. Our dedication to luring elite talent as we continue to lay the groundwork for the AI economy is demonstrated by this hire.
Prior to joining Crusoe, Menard was the Director of Product Management for Cloud AI at Google Cloud. In his crucial position, he oversaw all external product management responsibilities for the entire Vertex AI portfolio of AI products and solutions, which included the Vertex AI Platform for data scientists and developers (Model Garden, Model Builder, and Agent Builder), as well as Search and Agentspace application products. Organizing Google Cloud’s AI partnerships strategy and enabling clients and partners to create advanced AI and GenAI-powered experiences were made possible in large part by his team.
Throughout my professional life, I have been drawn to organizations that not only provide solutions to difficult issues but also change the world. According to Erwan Menard, Crusoe is utilizing its vertically integrated model to optimize each layer of the AI infrastructure stack in a daring and creative manner. Crusoe Cloud provides the scalable cloud platform that developers and companies require to swiftly create and implement their AI efforts. “Today, every business is in a race for AI leadership.”
Before becoming a leader in Cloud AI, Menard joined Google as a CEO of Elastifile, a leader in software-defined storage, whose technology is used in the Google Cloud Filestore product line. Along with creating important tools like RAMP for migration and CAMP for application modernization, he was instrumental in the development of Google Cloud Solution Engineering and Google’s data center transformation strategy. In his early career, Menard demonstrated a thorough and comprehensive understanding of technology and market dynamics by serving in leadership capacities at Alcatel and Hewlett-Packard, including vice president and general manager of HP’s global telecom business unit, and holding executive positions as president and chief operating officer at several international startups.
Crusoe Cloud is a user-friendly, incredibly scalable platform for executing workloads including next-generation AI. Based on the most recent, cutting-edge GPU infrastructure, the platform offers unparalleled dependability and enterprise-level support. With Crusoe Cloud, data scientists, engineers, and developers can concentrate on innovation rather than infrastructure.
