Core Scientific CEO and leadership

I am a finance and operations professional and have taken on progressively larger roles over time. I have experienced the steep learning curve of a startup, and the challenges of growing an existing multi-billion dollar business over 3x. Beneath these experiences is a laser focus on strategy, which when coupled with great execution and performance management delivers consistent and even formidable results. And throughout the process, I build a thriving, engaged, motivated team. There’s nothing better than that.

B. Kevin Turner (born April 3, 1965) is an American businessman and investor who is currently the chairman of Zayo Group and the vice chairman of Albertsons/Safeway Inc. Turner was most recently President & CEO of Core Scientific, a technology company specializing in Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence from 2018 to 2021. He previously served as the COO of Microsoft from 2005 to 2016. Prior to joining Microsoft, Turner was the CEO of Sam's Club and the CIO of Walmart. He is also the former Vice Chairman of Citadel LLC and CEO of Citadel Securities.

Jeff Taylor joined Core Scientific from People Connect, where he served as Director of Site Reliability and Dev Ops. Jeff started his career with Amazon and spent 14 years, expanding the fulfillment center network, operating and engineering upon the global retail sites and designing and launching many Amazon Web Services. He joined AWS as employee #20 and helped to grow the organization to several thousand. Jeff received many honors at Amazon, including the Amazon Inventor Award for his work on AWS and S3, as well as the Fire Extinguisher Award, for operational excellence in process and services. After Amazon, Jeff spent four years at CDK Global, leading Strategic Platform Engineering during a divestiture event and migrating mission critical aspect to the cloud. Jeff received his B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Washington.

Ashu Swami is a Chief Product Officer - Blockchain at Core Scientific and is based in New York City, New York. He studied at Fuqua School of Business between 2006 and 2007.

I enjoy building teams and solving hard problems through innovation, collaboration and a shared vision centered around creating customer value. #aiforgood #technologyforgoodAs Chief Product Officer, AI Ferreira is charged with equipping and enabling Data Scientists to take on the world’s most advanced challenges. This includes both software and infrastructure engineering.Before joining Core Scientific, Ferreira was EVP of Programmatic, charged with building the WideOrbit Programmatic Media Exchange. Prior to joining WideOrbit, Ferreira was Director of Engineering at a Seattle based predictive analytics startup focusing on using distributed machine learning techniques for the financial industry. Spending a decade at Microsoft, Ferreira owned the Tools and Publishing platform for the new MSN.com and Bing Windows and Windows Phone apps. Before this role, Ferreira served as the chief architect for the Microsoft Ad Exchange (formally AdECN) helping build out the first federated RTB exchange technology, marketplace design and business strategy for scaling to the entire volume of the Microsoft remnant inventory. Prior to focusing on Display, Ferreira led engineering teams working on Paid Search in Microsoft Bing Ads. His teams worked on products ranging from the redesign of the web user interfaces, the release of the first desktop client, external API frameworks to internal projects focused on developer efficiency and tooling. Ferreira began his career at Microsoft in 2004, working on building the internal Service Oriented Architecture management platform.Before joining Microsoft, Ferreira was a Sr Project Engineer with OgilvyInteractive™ in New York working on top brands’ technology and advertising solutions after transferring from Ogilvy South Africa in 2001. Ferreira earned a bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. He and his wife and 2 children live in Washington.Programming LanguagesC, C#, Java, Python, R, Javascipt, VHDLClustering TechnologiesKubernetes, Slurm, Spark, Horovod, OpenMPIMachine Learning FrameworksTensorflow, Keras, MxNetIoT / Embeddedatmega, PIC8, STM32, Kendryte K210, ESP32, ESP8266, OpenMV, LoRa, Xillinx

Aaron Williams is a Chief Accounting Officer at Core Scientific and is based in Bellevue, Washington. He has worked as Controller at Sempra Infrastructure, LLC; Financial Reporting Supervisor at SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORP; and Accounting Research & Policies Manager at SEMPRA ENERGY. Aaron attended UCLA between 1992 and 1996.