Lightning AI Hires CFO, CMO, CPO in Post-Voltage Park Push for Full-Stack AI Cloud
LightningAI · x · 2026-09-30
AI cloud company Lightning AI announced three executive hires: Heather Paduck as CFO, Betty Junod as CMO, and Jarlath Doherty as CPO.
- Paduck brings 25+ years of financial leadership in data centers and real estate, previously CFO of STACK Infrastructure, Northwood Investors, and Pembroke Real Estate; she will lead capital strategy for scaling GPU and data center capacity;
- Junod previously served as CMO of Heroku, with background at Docker, Squarespace, and other open-source infrastructure companies;
- Doherty has people-leadership experience at LinkedIn and Collibra.
The hires follow Lightning AI's merger with Voltage Park as the company builds a vertically integrated full-stack AI cloud spanning infrastructure and developer platform.
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