About Kevin Smith
CEO at Stelia.ai A passionate futurist focused on balancing innovation with sustainability and social value. Computer science-educated entrepreneur and strategic advisor in the fields of HPC/AI, with over 20 years of industry experience across GSI/Telco/Cloud. Ecosystem builder with a senior leadership (CXO) network including VC/fund management, global asset management, and Tier 1 technology providers.
Experience
Chief Executive Officer
Stelia
Oct 2025 — Present
Chief Operating Officer
Stelia
Apr 2025 — Oct 2025
Contributing to the delivery of our vision - building responsible technology that serves humanity without boundaries. Our mission is to become one of the most influential companies of the AI era—not through dominance, but through positive transformation. We believe true influence is earned by what you give back to the world; insight, integrity, and genuine innovation that moves society forward.
Strategic Advisor
Empati
Aug 2024 — Apr 2025 · London Area, United Kingdom
Advisor to the energy transition team and CXO to assist in the development of carbon abatement strategies through coal power retirement. Technical development for large-scale Neocloud and Hyperscale deployments.
Strategic Advisor | Market Development - Neocloud & Accelerated Computing
AtlasEdge
Sep 2023 — Mar 2025 · London, England, United Kingdom
Leading the technical product and market intelligence initiatives for HPC and AI solutions. Technical engagement lead for Neo Cloud, GPUaaS, HPC. Nvidia and high-density DLC/Immersion cooling technologies Owner of vendor partnerships and strategic alliances. CXO / SVP reporting lines.
Strategic Advisor
Scenegraph Studios
Aug 2023 — Apr 2025
Providing expert guidance to help achieve the long-term business goals with a focus on GPU and hardware ecosystem development. Working closely with senior management to identify and capitalise on opportunities, assess and mitigate risks, and develop effective strategies to drive growth and success.
Strategic Advisor
Colva
Jan 2023 — Apr 2025 · Southampton, England, United Kingdom
Providing expert guidance to deliver a wider AI ecosystem development. Working closely with senior management to identify and capitalise on opportunities, assess and mitigate risks, and develop effective strategies to drive growth and success.
Founder / CTO
Maritime Digital Hub
Mar 2020 — Apr 2025
Maritime Digital Hub has been formed by experts from the technology and maritime sectors and in partnership with the UK maritime clusters and local authorities. The focus of our hub is to provide thought leadership, guidance, and simplification of technology to assist in driving value from digital transformation and enable upskilling of the future workforce.
Founder | CTO
Yonder Cloud Limited
Nov 2019 — Apr 2025 · London, United Kingdom
Removing the noise, connecting the dots, and delivering business value. Yonder Cloud delivers full-stack expertise at the intersection of AI and high-performance computing (HPC), with a focus on delivering scalable and robust solutions to accelerate deep learning and data-intensive workloads. Leader of the product and market development initiatives, driving net new revenue ecosystems and alliances.
Regional Director - Accelerated Cloud & HCI
Cyxtera Technologies
Sep 2017 — Nov 2019 · London, United Kingdom
Technology vertical lead focused on delivering an AI ecosystem to drive business development and partnerships. Cyxtera is one of the worlds leading Datacenter providers and is fast becoming the thought leader in Cybersecurity and Hybrid & Software Defined Datacenter. As Data becomes the next "oil" Cyxtera have all of the tools and expertise required to create a safe, reliable and agile environment to allow businesses to concentrate on maximising their return from the data revolution.
Industry Specialist - Telco, Media, Cloud
Huawei
Jan 2016 — Sep 2017 · Reading, United Kingdom
Delivering tangible business improvements through digital transformation, disruptive technologies, holistic business optimization and integration/convergence of ICT Systems
Data Centre and Cloud Transformation Specialist
Dimension Data UKI
Oct 2014 — Dec 2015 · Fleet
Digital Consultant - Cloud
BT
Sep 2012 — Sep 2014
Director Datacenter Services
Genisys Group - Infrastructure Services
Aug 2005 — Sep 2012
Corporate Account Manager
Computer 2000
Jul 2003 — Aug 2005
Education
University of Portsmouth
Skills
- Channel Partners
- Business Transformation
- Network Solutions
- Key Account Management
- Presentations
- Data Center
- Virtualization
- Strategic Use Of Technology
- HP
- Enterprise Software
- External Sales
- Nvidia
- Strategic Technology Initiatives
- HP Products
- Managed Services
- Client Presentation
- Strategic Partnerships
- Complex Sales
- New Business Development
- Value Propositions
- Executive Relationships
- Digital Strategy
- Professional Services
- Omniverse
- Software Asset Management
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Business Process
- Data Center Architecture
- C-Level
- Cloud Computing
- Partnerships
- SaaS
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- User Experience (UX)
- CUDA
- Management Consulting
- Storage Solutions
- Account Management
- Sales Leadership
- Partner Management
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