Scale AI taps former Google Cloud executive as CEO

Reuters

Thu, July 30, 2026 astatine 10:04 AM CDT 1 min read

July 30 - Scale AI said connected Thursday it had named erstwhile Google Cloud enforcement Francis DeSouza arsenic ‌chief enforcement officer, effectual August 10, arsenic the ‌AI institution looks to grow its information and applications businesses.

DeSouza volition win Jason ​Droege, who has served arsenic interim CEO since June past year. Droege volition enactment with deSouza successful the coming months to enactment the transition, Scale said.

Founded by Alexandr Wang, Scale provides ‌data that powers frontier ⁠AI models and develops AI applications for businesses and governments. Last year, Wang joined Meta Platforms ⁠as its main AI officer.

Here are immoderate details:

• DeSouza has much than 30 years of acquisition successful endeavor exertion and astir ​recently served ​as main operating serviceman and ​president of information products ‌at Google Cloud.

• Before joining Google Cloud, DeSouza was president and CEO of Illumina, a genomic information and sequencing company.

• Scale said that nether DeSouza, Illumina's gross grew to much than $4.5 cardinal and the institution expanded into much than 150 countries.

• ‌Earlier successful his career, helium was ​president of products and services astatine ​cybersecurity institution Symantec. He ​also founded 2 companies that were aboriginal ‌acquired by Microsoft and Symantec.

• DeSouza ​holds bachelor's and ​master's degrees successful electrical engineering and machine subject from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

• Scale said it precocious ​added BP and ‌Mayo Clinic arsenic endeavor customers and expanded its enactment ​with U.S. and planetary governments.

(Reporting by Prathik Jayaprakash successful ​Bengaluru; Editing by Tasim Zahid)