Posts published by “Stefaan Vervaet”

Stefaan Vervaet is the CEO and co-founder of Akave, an S3-compatible, compute-agnostic data storage company built for AI and analytics workloads. Before Akave, he held several roles at Protocol Labs, including head of network growth and ecosystem lead for storage providers and Web2, where he mentored Web3 accelerator programs and drove business development for Filecoin.

Earlier in his career, he served as senior director of solutions and product marketing at Western Digital, developing cloud solutions and go-to-market strategies across multiple industries. His background also includes presales and product management roles at DataCenter Technologies (later Veritas Software) and Amplidata (later acquired by Western Digital).