Ori Industries Welcomes Richard Tame as Chief Financial Officer
June 25 2024 - 5:00AM
Today, Ori Industries, an AI Native cloud provider, welcomes
Richard Tame as Chief Financial Officer.
Tame joins Ori after more than three years at Aurora Innovation,
where he served as Chief Financial Officer, leading Finance as the
company grew from its Series B to their successful IPO on Nasdaq in
November 2021, and beyond. Tame managed all finance activity,
including investor relations, FP&A, accounting, insurance and
internal audit. In addition to his finance operations
responsibilities, Tame maintained Aurora’s real estate portfolio,
including the opening of six new campuses. For over a decade prior
to Aurora, Tame served in finance leadership roles at Lyft, Meta,
Microsoft Azure, and AWS and earlier in his career worked in
airlines and aircraft leasing.
Mahdi Yahya, CEO and Founder of Ori, shares, “At a time of
monumental growth for Ori’s GPU cloud services, we are thrilled to
welcome Richard to Ori’s leadership team as the company scales
operations to meet the booming demand for GPU compute. His
expertise in leading financial operations and strategic investment
initiatives will be crucial as we expand our infrastructure
capabilities and enhance our global service offerings. Together, we
are committed to strengthening and continuing to build enduring
relationships with our customers, ensuring their success is at the
forefront of our strategic objectives.”
“It’s easy to get excited about a company like Ori that is
building the critical infrastructure that is enabling the AI boom.
Ori is already making noteworthy business progress and I am looking
forward to working with Mahdi and the team to capitalize on the
growing appetite for high-performance computing infrastructure as
we build the hyperscale cloud of tomorrow,” adds Tame.
As Chief Financial Officer, Tame will be responsible for
overseeing all financial strategy and operations, including
fundraising, investor relations, financial planning and analysis
and accounting. He will also oversee the expansion of Ori’s
datacenter footprint to support the growing demand for AI
infrastructure and lead Ori’s operations functions, including legal
and the People team.
Ori offers a full suite of AI Native infrastructure solutions
including compute, storage and advanced orchestration software. The
team is headquartered in the U.K. and serves a global customer
base.
About Ori Ori is building the backbone of the AI era so
that the technology of tomorrow can advance our world. Ori believes
that the promise of AI will be determined by how effectively AI
teams can acquire and deploy the resources they need to train,
serve, and scale their models. Ori is the ideal partner for AI
teams, offering a seamless, end-to-end platform that not only
provides the essential GPU compute power but also a software layer
designed to optimize the use of these resources. By delivering
comprehensive, AI-native infrastructure that fundamentally improves
how software interacts with hardware, Ori is driving the future of
AI. Learn more at https://www.ori.co/.
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