Cully Cavness is a co-founder of Crusoe and serves as its President and Chief Strategy Officer, according to the company's leadership page, which lists Cavness and CEO Chase Lochmiller as Crusoe's founders. Crusoe's company history says it was founded in 2018 with an energy-first approach and now builds AI data centers and runs Crusoe Cloud. Before co-founding Crusoe, Cavness held leadership and management positions in the upstream oil and gas and geothermal energy industries and worked in energy investment banking.12
At a glance
- Current role
- Co-founder, President and Chief Strategy Officer
- Company
- Crusoe
- Sector
- Company
- Work listed
- 1
- Sources cited
- 2
- Profile reviewed
Career
Crusoe's leadership page describes Cavness as an energy industry professional whose earlier roles included leadership and management positions in upstream oil and gas and geothermal energy, as well as energy investment banking. Cavness co-founded Crusoe with Chase Lochmiller and serves as President and Chief Strategy Officer.1
Crusoe's history page traces the company from its 2018 founding, around technology that converted wasted natural gas into energy for computing, to the general availability of Crusoe Cloud in 2024 and the launch of Crusoe Managed Inference in 2025.2
Work and contributions
Crusoe Cloud and AI data centers Proprietary product
Co-founded Crusoe, which its company history describes as founded in 2018 and which now offers Crusoe Cloud and builds AI data center campuses.12
Timeline
Where they work
- Crusoe 2 people in the wiki
Related people
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2 sources · profile reviewed Oct 22, 2026 · data updated Oct 22, 2026