Nebius 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. Based 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. Lawrence 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.
