About Baseten
Baseten’s mission is to power AI application builders to accelerate and amplify the impact of Artificial Intelligence on how we live and work.
Our executive team
Tuhin Srivastava
CEO and Co-Founder
Tuhin Srivastava is the CEO and co-founder of Baseten, where he draws on his background in both finance and machine learning engineering to help companies scale mission-critical AI from prototype to production.
Amir Haghighat
CTO and Co-Founder
Amir Haghighat is the CTO and co-founder of Baseten, where he leads the design and implementation of high-performance AI infrastructure, drawing on his experience building machine learning systems and architecting large-scale production deployments.
Phil Howes
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist
Phil Howes is Chief Scientist and co-founder at Baseten, where he applies his background in mathematics (PhD, University of Sydney) and experience as an ML engineer to develop systems that enable data scientists to deploy production-ready machine learning applications efficiently.
Pankaj Gupta
Co-Founder & Model Performance Engineer
Pankaj Gupta is co-founder and model performance engineer at Baseten, where he focuses on optimizing inference through techniques such as speculative decoding and GPU-level optimizations to improve the speed and scalability of AI systems.
Dannie Herzberg
President
Dannie Herzberg is President at Baseten, where she leads go-to-market and operations by drawing on her proven track record scaling customer-centric organizations at HubSpot and Slack, as well as her strategic insights from Sequoia Capital.
Deepak Bhandarkar
Head of Finance
Deepak Bhandarkar is Head of Finance at Baseten, where he brings deep financial leadership spanning accounting, strategic finance, and operational scaling from roles at firms like SoFi, Uber, and Microsoft to guide the company’s growth and operational efficiency.
Mike Bilodeau
Head of Marketing
Mike Bilodeau is Head of Marketing at Baseten, where he leads go-to-market strategy and demand generation drawing on his experience scaling marketing and developer relations teams at Lightning AI, Panther, and Kong.
Ed Shrager
Head of Partnerships
Ed Shrager is Head of Partnerships at Baseten, where he applies his entrepreneurial and investment banking experience, shaped by roles at SoftBank, private equity, and his own startup, to build strategic alliances that drive AI ecosystem growth.
