2017 – 2026 · AI cloud · CIK 1769628
CoreWeave Leadership
Who founded CoreWeave (three natural-gas-trading-era co-founders, not the typical AI-infrastructure-vendor profile), who runs it today, who sits on the board after the March 2025 IPO, and how the dual-class Class A / Class B structure plus the founders' Class B holdings concentrate roughly 73% of voting power with the three co-founders. Sourced from CoreWeave's first-ever DEF 14A proxy statement filed April 22, 2026 for the June 8, 2026 annual meeting, plus the March 2025 IPO S-1 for the founder bios.
Sibling page: CoreWeave Financials — the post-FY2025 events panel surfaces the spring 2026 financing wave (the $8.5B DDTL 4.0 facility, the $1.75B convertible notes, the $1B senior notes, the Jane Street equity issuance) and the customer-contract expansions with Microsoft, Meta, and OpenAI. Roster row: CoreWeave on /orgs/.
First-ever proxy — April 2026, post-IPO
CoreWeave IPO'd on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on March 28, 2025 under ticker CRWV. The April 22, 2026 proxy is the company's first-ever DEF 14A and the first time the post-IPO board, executive roster, and voting structure are disclosed in their annual-meeting form. The board has been substantially reshaped through 2025: Karen Boone joined in January 2025, Glenn H. Hutchins in February 2025 (Lead Independent Director), and Margaret C. Whitman in March 2025; the May 2024 Magnetar Director Nomination Letter was terminated November 6, 2025; Ernie Rogers, the original Magnetar-side director, resigned March 11, 2025 and joined the company as Chief Architect, Strategic Financing in June 2025; and Jack Cogen, an early-era natural-gas-network director, will not stand for re-election at the June 8, 2026 meeting (the board will reduce from six to five directors).
The page below reads through the founder cohort, the eight-officer current executive roster (the founders plus four post-IPO hires from Google Cloud, AWS, and Oracle), the six-director board, the Class A / Class B voting structure, and the pre-IPO investor influence that sits behind the board's composition.
Founders
CoreWeave was founded in 2017 as Atlantic Crypto Corporation by three natural-gas-trading colleagues from Hudson Ridge Asset Management and Natsource Asset Management. The company's original business was Ethereum mining; the GPU-cloud pivot to AI infrastructure happened in 2019, with the company renamed CoreWeave that same year. The three co-founders all remain at the company today — Intrator as CEO and Chairperson, Venturo as CSO, McBee as CDO — and together hold roughly 73% of total voting power through their Class B common stock holdings.
Co-founder & CEO of Hudson Ridge Asset Management — a natural-gas hedge fund — from January 2013 to January 2018. From September 1998 to July 2014 (overlapping the Hudson Ridge years), held roles of increasing responsibility, most recently Principal Portfolio Manager, at Natsource Asset Management, where he oversaw investments in global environmental markets and related energy products. B.A. in Political Science from Binghamton University; M.P.A. from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. Holds the largest Class B common-stock position of the three founders — approximately 38.7% of total voting power per the April 2026 proxy.
Partner at Hudson Ridge Asset Management from January 2013 to January 2018. From May 2007 to December 2012, served as Portfolio Manager — Energy and Emissions for Natsource Asset Management, managing a proprietary trading portfolio of investments in global environmental markets. B.A. in Economics from Haverford College. Served as CoreWeave's Chief Technology Officer from October 2017 to March 2024 before transitioning into the Chief Strategy Officer role. Approximately 20.3% of total voting power.
Proprietary trader at Active Power Investments (April 2020 to January 2021), VP at Fourth Floor Coastal LLC (oil-and-gas exploration / production, March 2017 to August 2018), and proprietary trader at Windy Bay Power LLC (commodity-focused hedge fund, January 2013 to January 2018). B.S. in Finance from the University of Colorado Boulder. Served as CoreWeave's Chief Strategy Officer from September 2017 to March 2024 before transitioning into the Chief Development Officer role (post a chair-shuffle with Venturo). Approximately 14.6% of total voting power.
Voting-power figures are as of the April 15, 2026 record date for the June 8, 2026 annual meeting, per the proxy's Security Ownership table. The three co-founders together hold approximately 73.6% of total voting power; the entire directors-and-officers-as-a-group bloc (12 persons) holds 72.32% — the founder figure is slightly higher because Cogen's holdings reduce the group total once non-founder directors are netted in.
Current executive officers
Eight executive officers as of the April 15, 2026 proxy record date. The three co-founders plus five post-2022 hires drawn primarily from Google Cloud, AWS, and Oracle Cloud (Agrawal, Jones, Goldberg, Jain) plus McVeety as the law-firm-side hire. The five Named Executive Officers per the proxy are Intrator, Venturo, McBee, Agrawal, and Jones; the remaining three (McVeety, Goldberg, Jain) are Section 16 reporting officers but not named for compensation-disclosure purposes. Click any row for the bio detail.
Michael Intrator
57
Chief Executive Officer, President, and Chairperson of the Board
2017 (founding)
Co-founder. Has served as Chairperson of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and President since September 2017. See the Founders section above for the Hudson Ridge / Natsource lineage and Class B common-stock position.
Brian Venturo
41
Chief Strategy Officer and Director
2017 (founding)
Co-founder. Has served as a member of the Board since April 2019 and as Chief Strategy Officer since March 2024 (previously Chief Technology Officer from October 2017 to March 2024). See the Founders section above for the Hudson Ridge / Natsource lineage.
Brannin McBee
41
Chief Development Officer
2017 (founding)
Co-founder. Has served as Chief Development Officer since March 2024 (previously Chief Strategy Officer from September 2017 to March 2024). See the Founders section above for the natural-gas / commodity-trading lineage.
Nitin Agrawal
46
Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
Mar 2024
Has served as Chief Financial Officer since March 2024 and as Treasurer since June 2025. From May 2021 to March 2024, served as Vice President, Finance of Google Cloud, the cloud-computing services business segment of Alphabet Inc. From August 2019 to April 2021, served as Chief Financial Officer of Mapbox, Inc., a location-technology company. From January 2015 to July 2019, served as Finance Director of the Compute Services division of Amazon Web Services. B.Tech in Engineering from the National Institute of Technology in Kurukshetra, India; M.B.A. in Finance from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.
Jonathan Jones
52
Chief Revenue Officer
Oct 2025
Has served as Chief Revenue Officer since October 2025. From November 2017 to September 2025, served in roles of increasing responsibility at Amazon Web Services, including Vice President, Global Startups and Venture Capital (September 2024 to September 2025), Vice President, GTM, AWS Products and Services (August 2022 to September 2024), and Director, GTM, Compute and Core Services (November 2017 to August 2022). M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania; bachelor's in Economics, Statistics with Honors from the University of California, Davis.
Kristen McVeety
55
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Mar 2022
Has served as General Counsel since March 2022 and as Corporate Secretary since December 2024. From February 2003 to March 2022, was a founder and partner of Gabler & McVeety LLP, a law firm. Earlier, was an associate in the Corporate and M&A practice groups at Dorsey & Whitney LLP from March 1999 to February 2003. B.A. in International Relations and Business Management from Boston University; J.D. from Brooklyn Law School.
Chen Goldberg
45
Executive Vice President, Product and Engineering
Aug 2024
Has served as EVP, Product and Engineering since February 2026; previously served as Senior Vice President of Engineering from August 2024 through January 2026. From February 2016 to August 2024, held multiple roles at Google Cloud, most recently as General Manager & Vice President of Engineering, leading the Kubernetes and Serverless team and product portfolio. Earlier, served as Director of Engineering at HP. B.A. in Management and Computer Sciences and M.B.A. from The Open University of Israel.
Sachin Jain
48
Chief Operating Officer
Aug 2024
Has served as Chief Operating Officer since August 2024. From May 2024 to August 2024, was Senior Vice President at Oracle Cloud, where he led Oracle's AI infrastructure, data-center capacity, and infrastructure product teams. From June 2020 to May 2024, served as Vice President at Google Cloud. From January 2002 to June 2020, served in roles of increasing responsibility at Amazon.com, including most recently as Vice President, Selling Partner Experience (August 2017 to June 2020). B.Tech in Manufacturing Science & Engineering from IIT Kharagpur; M.S. in Computer Science and M.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Ages and tenure as of the April 15, 2026 proxy record date. The "At CoreWeave since" column is the year each officer first joined per the proxy bio. The proxy is the canonical source for officer titles, dates, and prior background; coreweave.com/about is the company's marketing-side roster.
Board of directors
Six directors as of April 15, 2026. The board is classified into three staggered classes (Class I, II, III) with three-year terms; classes rotate through annual meetings on a 2026 / 2027 / 2028 cycle as listed in the table. Four of the six current directors are independent under Nasdaq listing rules (Cogen, Boone, Hutchins, Whitman); the two non-independent directors are co-founders Intrator and Venturo. Lead Independent Director is Glenn H. Hutchins. Jack Cogen has notified the board he will not stand for re-election at the June 8, 2026 annual meeting; effective immediately following the meeting, the authorized board size will be reduced from six to five.
Michael Intrator
I
57
Co-founder, CEO, President, Chairperson of the Board
2017
Class I director; up for re-election at the June 8, 2026 annual meeting. Not independent (CEO). See Founders and the officer row for full bio.
Jack Cogen
I
—
Director (departing); long-tenured early-era natural-gas-network director
2017–2018
Class I director; term expires at the June 8, 2026 annual meeting. Notified the Board of Directors on April 16, 2026 that he would not stand for re-election; per the proxy, the decision was not due to any disagreement with the company on operations, policies, or practices. The proxy describes Cogen as having been "an integral part of CoreWeave's growth and success for more than eight years" — placing his board tenure at roughly 2017–2018, the natural-gas-trading-era period the founders also emerged from. Independent. Currently serves on the Audit Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Holds approximately 1.06% of total voting power (Class A only) directly and through Cogen-affiliated trusts; Cogen's affiliates were among the pre-IPO 2025 Notes purchasers and registration-rights counterparties named in the proxy's Certain Relationships section.
Margaret C. Whitman
II
69
Former CEO, HPE; former CEO, eBay; former U.S. Ambassador to Kenya
Mar 2025
Class II director; current term expires at the 2027 annual meeting. Independent. Chairperson of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee; serves on the Audit Committee. Served as United States Ambassador to Kenya from July 2022 to November 2024. Earlier, was CEO of Quibi Holdings (March 2018 to February 2021), CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (June 2017 to February 2018), President & CEO of Hewlett-Packard Company (now HP Inc., September 2011 to July 2015), and President & CEO of eBay Inc. (March 1998 to November 2008). Previously served on the boards of Procter & Gamble (2011–2022), General Motors (2021–2022), and Dropbox (2017–2020). A.B. in Economics from Princeton; M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Glenn H. Hutchins
II
70
Lead Independent Director; co-founder, Silver Lake; Chairman, North Island Mgmt
Feb 2025
Class II director; current term expires at the 2027 annual meeting. Lead Independent Director since March 2025. Serves on the Compensation Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Currently Chairman of North Island Management, LLC (a family investment office, also known as Tide Mill, LLC) since 2013, and Chairman of North Island Ventures, an investment firm, since 2020. Co-founder of Silver Lake (the technology investment firm, founded 1999), where he served as Co-CEO until 2011 and as Managing Director from 1999 to 2011. Earlier, was a Senior Managing Director at The Blackstone Group from 1994 to 1999. Currently Vice Chairman and Lead Independent Director of Banco Santander S.A. since October 2023. Previously served as a director of AT&T (2014–2025), Virtu Financial (2017–2021), and Nasdaq, Inc. (2005–2017). Co-Chairman of the Brookings Institution since November 2018; was a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2011 to 2020. A.B. from Harvard College, M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Brian Venturo
III
41
Co-founder, Chief Strategy Officer; former CTO
2019
Class III director; current term expires at the 2028 annual meeting. Not independent (CSO and co-founder). Has served as a director since April 2019. See Founders and the officer row for full bio.
Karen Boone
III
52
Audit Chair; former Interim Co-CEO Peloton; former CFO Restoration Hardware
Jan 2025
Class III director; current term expires at the 2028 annual meeting. Independent. Chairperson of the Audit Committee; serves on the Compensation Committee. Previously served as Interim Co-CEO and Co-President of Peloton Interactive (May 2024 to January 2025). Earlier, served as President and Chief Financial & Administrative Officer of Restoration Hardware (May 2014 to August 2018), and as CFO from June 2012 to May 2014. From 1996 to 2012, held various roles at Deloitte & Touche LLP, most recently as Audit Partner. Currently serves on the boards of Peloton, Sonos, Rivian Automotive, and several private companies. B.S. in Business Economics from the University of California, Davis.
Ages and director-since dates as listed in the April 2026 proxy. Cogen's age is omitted because the proxy table does not list an age for him in his step-down notice context (the company instead provides a tribute paragraph rather than the standard nominee-style row). After Cogen's June 8, 2026 step-down, the board will consist of five directors: Intrator (Class I), Whitman and Hutchins (Class II), Venturo and Boone (Class III). Three of the five remaining will be independent (Boone, Hutchins, Whitman); all three Audit, Compensation, and Nominating committees will remain 100% independent.
Voting structure — Class A, Class B, Class C common stock
CoreWeave's Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation authorizes three classes of common stock: Class A common stock, with one vote per share, Class B common stock, with 10 votes per share, and Class C common stock, with no voting rights, of which no shares are outstanding as of the April 15, 2026 record date. The 10-to-1 ratio is materially less concentrating than peer dual-class structures (Snap is 10:1 like CoreWeave, but Palantir's Class F is much higher and C3.ai's Class B is 50:1); the Class B float at CoreWeave is the load-bearing factor concentrating voting power, not the per-share multiplier.
As of the April 15, 2026 record date for the 2026 Annual Meeting, there were 442,969,348 shares of Class A common stock outstanding and 99,997,704 shares of Class B common stock outstanding (Class B is approximately 18.4% of the total share count). The 10-to-1 voting ratio means the Class B float carries roughly 69% of total voting power despite being less than a fifth of the share count.
The April 2026 proxy's beneficial-ownership table shows that the three co-founders together hold approximately 73.6% of total voting power — Intrator at 38.70%, Venturo at 20.30%, and McBee at 14.59%. The full directors-and-officers-as-a-group bloc (12 persons) holds 72.32% of total voting power and 100% of all outstanding Class B common stock (107,470,864 Class B shares including options exercisable within 60 days). The CoreWeave founders' position is therefore structurally similar to what Palantir and C3.ai look like — founder-controlled even after a public offering — but expressed through the 10:1 ratio and a much larger founder Class B float rather than the 50:1 / much-higher-multiplier patterns peers use.
Outside the founder cohort, three holders are named as 5%-or-greater Class A stockholders: Magnetar Financial LLC-managed funds at 17.07% of Class A (5.34% of total voting power), NVIDIA Corporation at 10.66% of Class A (3.27%), and Jane Street Group LLC at 6.53% of Class A (2.00%). None of the three currently holds Class B common stock, and the May 2024 Magnetar Director Nomination Letter that gave Magnetar a board-seat right was terminated November 6, 2025, so Magnetar's pre-IPO board representation through Ernie Rogers (resigned March 11, 2025; later joined CoreWeave as Chief Architect, Strategic Financing in June 2025) is no longer a structural feature of the board.
Practical effect: even though Magnetar, NVIDIA, and Jane Street together hold roughly 34% of Class A common stock, their combined voting power is only about 10.6% — the founders' Class B holdings are the controlling bloc on every matter the Annual Meeting votes on. The dual-class structure does not have a sunset trigger of the kind some peers have adopted; the proxy describes a Class B-to-Class A conversion mechanism on transfer outside permitted holders (the founders, their family vehicles) but no time-based or threshold-based sunset.
Pre-IPO investor influence on the post-IPO board
CoreWeave's pre-IPO build-out was unusually bank-financing-heavy — the FY2025 10-K's debt schedule reflects multiple delayed-draw term loans (the DDTL series), several rounds of convertible notes, and a substantial preferred-equity stack assembled before the March 2025 IPO. That financing history creates two distinct shapes of post-IPO investor influence on the board.
Magnetar — pre-IPO board seat, terminated 2025. In May 2024 CoreWeave entered a Director Nomination Letter with Magnetar Financial LLC-managed funds, giving Magnetar the right to nominate one director so long as Magnetar held at least 4,976,240 shares of capital stock and Class B common stock remained outstanding. Ernie Rogers, then COO of Magnetar, served as the Magnetar nominee on the board until his March 11, 2025 resignation (timed just ahead of the March 28, 2025 IPO). The Director Nomination Letter itself was terminated November 6, 2025. After the resignation, CoreWeave hired Rogers as Chief Architect, Strategic Financing in June 2025 (annual base salary $450,000 plus equity); the proxy discloses the hiring as a related-party transaction in the Certain Relationships section. Magnetar funds remain the largest non-founder Class A stockholder (17.07% of Class A, 5.34% of voting power) but no longer have a board seat.
NVIDIA — equity stake, no board seat. NVIDIA holds 47,213,353 shares of Class A common stock (10.66% of Class A; 3.27% of voting power) per the April 2026 proxy beneficial-ownership table. NVIDIA does not have a director-nomination right and has never had a director on the board. The relationship is a customer-and-supplier-and-investor entanglement — CoreWeave is one of NVIDIA's largest GPU customers, NVIDIA is a strategic equity holder, and NVIDIA has chip-allocation visibility into CoreWeave's capacity plans — but no governance-side board representation. The April 2026 proxy is the first DEF 14A to spell this out cleanly.
Jane Street — equity stake, no board seat. Jane Street Group LLC holds 28,913,099 shares of Class A (6.53% of Class A, 2.00% of voting power) per the April 2026 proxy. The April 15, 2026 8-K disclosed an additional Jane Street Class A common-stock issuance during the spring 2026 financing wave (also surfaced as a card on the Financials post-FY events panel). No board seat.
The net effect: post-IPO, the CoreWeave board reflects no investor-nominated seats — it is a founder-and-recently-recruited-independents board (Boone, Hutchins, Whitman all joined Q1 2025), and the pre-IPO Magnetar / NVIDIA structural footprint is now expressed through ownership stakes and customer / partner entanglements rather than through governance.
Notable transitions and departures
CoreWeave's leadership has otherwise been unusually stable since founding — the three co-founders have been continuously in their seats since 2017–2019. The post-IPO era's most material board events are Ernie Rogers's pre-IPO resignation and rehire, the chair-shuffle between Venturo (CTO → CSO) and McBee (CSO → CDO) in March 2024, and Jack Cogen's pending step-down at the June 2026 annual meeting.
Ernie Rogers
Mar 11, 2025
Resigned from board ahead of IPO; rehired June 2025 as Chief Architect, Strategic Financing.
Pre-IPO Magnetar nominee on the board (per the May 2024 Director Nomination Letter). Resigned as a director on March 11, 2025, two-and-a-half weeks before the March 28, 2025 IPO. Was rehired by CoreWeave as a non-executive officer employee in June 2025 in the role of Chief Architect, Strategic Financing (annual base salary $450,000 plus equity). The Director Nomination Letter that originally placed Rogers on the board was terminated November 6, 2025. The proxy discloses the rehire as a related-party transaction in its Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions section.
Venturo ↔ McBee chair shuffle
Mar 2024
Venturo CTO → CSO; McBee CSO → CDO. No founder departures; pre-IPO restructuring of co-founder roles.
One year before the IPO, the two non-CEO co-founders swapped functional titles: Venturo moved from Chief Technology Officer (October 2017 to March 2024) into the new Chief Strategy Officer role; McBee moved from Chief Strategy Officer (September 2017 to March 2024) into the new Chief Development Officer role. The shuffle coincided with the August 2024 hiring of Sachin Jain as COO and the August 2024 hiring of Chen Goldberg as SVP of Engineering — pre-IPO professionalization of the operating layer that freed the co-founders for non-operational strategy / development roles.
Jack Cogen
Jun 8, 2026
Will not stand for re-election at the 2026 annual meeting; board reduces from six to five.
Notified the Board of Directors on April 16, 2026 that he would not stand for re-election at the June 8, 2026 annual meeting; per the proxy, the decision was not due to any disagreement with the company. Will step down as a director upon the expiration of his term at the conclusion of the meeting, after which the board's authorized size decreases from six to five. Effective at the same time, Glenn H. Hutchins will replace Cogen on the Audit Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee will continue with Whitman (chair) and Hutchins.
Pre-IPO board departures from CoreWeave's earlier Atlantic Crypto / pre-AI-pivot era are not enumerated here — the page focuses on the post-IPO and immediately-pre-IPO leadership cohort that is the primary visitor question. Future Section 16-officer departures will be added in the same matched-set shape.
Read these primary sources
SEC filings are public domain. The links below are the authoritative places to read the underlying disclosures directly — what appears in news coverage is downstream of these primary sources.
DEF 14A proxy statement — current officers, directors, voting structure
CoreWeave's first-ever DEF 14A, filed April 22, 2026 for the June 8, 2026 annual meeting. Authoritative for the executive-officer roster, board roster, director ages and tenure, and voting-structure mechanics.
# First-ever DEF 14A (April 22, 2026)
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1769628/000176962826000191/crwv-20260422.htm
# All CoreWeave DEF 14A filings (annual)
https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001769628&type=DEF+14AS-1 / S-1/A — IPO filings, founder bios, original board composition
The March 2025 IPO registration statements. Authoritative for the founder bios at the time of the direct listing, the original 2017 founding facts (Atlantic Crypto Corporation), and the pre-IPO board composition including Ernie Rogers's Magnetar-nominee role.
# Initial S-1 filed March 3, 2025
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1769628/000119312525044231/d899798ds1.htm
# S-1/A filed March 12, 2025
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1769628/000119312525052207/d899798ds1a.htm
# S-1/A filed March 20, 2025 (final pre-effective amendment)
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1769628/000119312525058309/d899798ds1a.htm10-K — "Directors and Executive Officers" cross-check
FY2025 10-K (FYE December 31, 2025) for cross-checking the April 2026 proxy's officer roster against the formal annual-report disclosure.
# FY2025 10-K filed March 2, 2026
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1769628/000176962826000104/crwv-20251231.htm
# All CoreWeave 10-K filings
https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001769628&type=10-KCoreWeave's own About page
Company-side bios for the marketing-side framing of the same officer cohort.
# CoreWeave About
https://www.coreweave.com/about
# Investor Relations
https://investors.coreweave.com/Sources: CoreWeave DEF 14A proxy statement filed April 22, 2026 (record date April 15, 2026; 2026 annual meeting June 8, 2026 — the company's first DEF 14A as a public company); March 2025 IPO S-1 / S-1/A registration statements; FY2025 10-K filed March 2, 2026 (accession 0001769628-26-000104); Item 5.02 8-Ks since the March 28, 2025 IPO; coreweave.com/about company bios; contemporaneous reporting in NYT, WSJ, Reuters, Bloomberg, Bloomberg Law, and The Information. SEC filings are public domain; reporter coverage is cited under fair use (linked, not republished). Last updated April 30, 2026.
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