Michael Intrator

Michael Intrator holds a deeply specialized background in high-stakes finance and commodities trading. Before co-founding CoreWeave, he served as a Managing Partner at Hudson Ridge Asset Management, a natural gas hedge fund. This incredibly rigorous background managing volatile global energy markets and optimizing complex financial risk provided him with the precise capital-allocation expertise required to aggressively scale CoreWeave from a crypto mining operation into a massive AI data center.

Michael Intrator is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of CoreWeave, Inc. Leveraging his deep financial expertise in physical commodities, power trading, and capital allocation, Intrator recognized that GPU compute power would become the most valuable commodity of the 21st century. As CEO, Intrator steered CoreWeave through its high-stakes pivot from cryptocurrency mining in 2019 to specialized AI cloud infrastructure, negotiated the company's historic alliance with NVIDIA and Jensen Huang, secured over $12 billion in combined equity and debt financing, and orchestrated CoreWeave's multi-billion-dollar supply contract with Microsoft. Under his leadership, CoreWeave expanded from an entrepreneurial garage into a $19 billion hyperscaler leader with over $2.0 billion in annual revenue.