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Our Mission: Help sovereign AI Cloud and data center companies deal with the new US AI export regulations so they can survive and grow
Aiolian provides full life-cycle services: Initial US NVEU (National Validated End-User) readiness assessment and mitigation strategies, working with clients to apply and qualify for NVEU authorization and finally, ongoing audits and compliance.
We are unique - vs traditional consulting or international law firms - with our exclusive mission focus and in unifying three skills needed to quickly and effectively ensure our clients' success
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Deep knowledge of clients’ AI stacks and their AI data center operations (incl. cyber security)
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Intimate knowledge of our clients' AI markets and customers
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And most importantly, hands-on experience engaging with key US government departments (Bureau of Industry & Security, Department of Commerce, etc)
The partners at Aiolian are an international team of data center veterans who have built data center & AI technology companies, created secure, multi-megawatt data centers and successfully engaged with the US government on policy and trade.
Taufik Ma
is a data center veteran who led Intel’s CPU strategic planning during Intel’s heyday and was GM of Intel’s enterprise systems group. Post Intel, he has acted as CEO, founder, CPO, CTO and CSO in different data center companies. He has sold three data center technology companies and founded two AI / data center startups.
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As CTO and GM at Intel, he drove Intel’s cybersecurity strategy and business that included McAfee. More recently, he was the key driver of Intel’s engagement with the US government to influence the definition of the CHIPS act and Intel’s successful application and follow-on contractual work.
Sanjeev Khanna
After growing Intel’s enterprise system business in EMEA, he managed $7.5B of strategic sourcing for Microsoft’s Azure global data center build-out, and afterwards, managed the end-to-end build-out of Oracle’s data centers as their VP Cloud Life cycle. He also grew Oracle’s sovereign cloud business across all of EMEA, the middle east and Africa.
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