About us
About Vertical Data
Meet The Team
Deven Soni
Deven Soni is the CEO and Founder with a background as an M&A Investment Banker at Lazard and a member of Tech Private Equity teams at Goldman Sachs and Highland Capital Partners. He co-founded Wired Investors and Snowball Industries, leading multiple acquisitions and integrations, and served as founding COO of Tokens.com.
Chris Johnson
Chris Johnson is the founder of Sur Technology, an independent distributor of AI hardware for data centers and OEMs. He previously served as a sales executive focusing on the enterprise hardware sector.
Jesse Nickel
Jesse Nickel is a senior executive specializing in data center development and consulting for high-density clients, with roles in equipment sourcing and replacement. He has held executive positions at Validus Power, Hut8, Console Inc., and Convergent Telecom.
Gaylen Brown
Gaylen Brown spent over 12 years at Google, including a role as a commodity manager managing over $180 million in annual data center spend. He is also a former engineering manager at Yahoo.
Christopher Creatura
CFO/COO & co-founder of Vertical Data. Formerly CFO/CSO at Live Patrol and VP of Growth at Bluefin Trading. Was an operating partner at Enduring Ventures, M&A banker at BofA Merrill Lynch and CPA at Deloitte. Founded Conway Merchants, a boutique merchant bank.
Jaime Leverton
Jaime Leverton is the former CEO of Hut8, a top publicly traded Bitcoin miner. She previously served as the Chief Commercial Officer at eStruxture, a leading network of Canadian data centers.
Trevor Koverko
Trevor Koverko is the founder of Polymath/Polymesh, a billion-dollar blockchain infrastructure company, and co-founder of Tokens.com. Tokens.com reached a peak market cap of $400 million.
