Chris Malone VP of DSX Platform Nvidia

Kristina Bartley Director, Cloud Operations & Innovation Microsoft

JOB FROM: HEAD OF DATA CENTERS AT OPENAI

JOB TO: VP OF DSX PLATFORM AT NVIDIA

Chris Malone, OpenAI’ s former Head of Data Centers, has joined NVIDIA as Vice President of its DSX Platform, the division helping customers build AI data centres to NVIDIA’ s specifications. Chris left OpenAI in August after a wave of executive departures, having joined in March 2025 following roles at Meta and Google.

JOB FROM: SR. MANAGER, DATA CENTER ENGINEERING OPERATIONS AT AWS

JOB TO: DIRECTOR, CLOUD OPERATIONS & INNOVATION AT MICROSOFT

Kristina Bartley has moved from her role as Senior Manager, Data Center Engineering Operations at AWS to Director, Cloud Operations & Innovation at Microsoft. She brings 20 years of hyperscale infrastructure experience, most recently leading AWS data centre operations teams supporting AI and high-performance computing workloads. Kristina is known for building strong leaders and raising operational standards in complex, large-scale environments.

18 October 2026