About Us
Based in Toronto, Canada and Mountain View, California, CentML makes it easy and affordable to leverage state-of-the-art AI models for a wide range of use cases and applications. Our fully customizable platform for AI development and deployment provides industry-leading performance.
The CentML Platform efficiently utilizes hardware, software and memory resources and supports a range of accelerators, from NVIDIA and AMD GPUs to Google TPUs and AWS Inferentia chips. Our researchers and engineers continually integrate cutting-edge techniques for inference optimization, giving our customers access to a highly performant, cost-optimized full stack solution for AI deployment on any cloud provider or virtual private cloud (VPC). Our secure platform is fully SOC2-compliant and supports dedicated cloud regions for geographic isolation.
Built by a team of engineers and machine learning (ML) systems experts, the CentML Platform helps companies reduce costs with lower compute pricing and faster inference speed, so they can run more AI inference workloads on a fixed budget. The CentML Platform is ideal for startups that need access to cutting-edge compute resources without vendor lock-in, cloud providers who want to enhance their infrastructure offerings, and enterprises who want to reduce the complexity of securely deploying open-source models.

Our Mission
CentML was founded by Professor Gennady Pekhimenko, head of the EcoSystems research group at the University of Toronto, and other AI experts from NVIDIA, Google, Amazon, Microsoft Research, and MosaicML. CentML's mission is to develop new technologies that enhance AI efficiency and innovation, benefiting the global community.
Leadership Team

Gennady Pekhimenko
Co-Founder & CEO

Shang Wang
Co-Founder & CTO

Akbar Nurlybayev
Co-Founder & COO

Anand Jayarajan
Co-Founder & Chief Architect

Emily Hutson
VP of Marketing

John Palazza
VP of GTM

Thomas Kwon
Head of Finance & Operations

Steven So
Director of People & Talent
Meet Our Advisors

Garth Gibson
Former CEO & President
@ Vector Institute

David Patterson
Distinguished Engineer

Misha Bilenko
VP of AI
@ Microsoft Azure

Ruslan Salakhutdinov
Professor
@ CMU