Neocloud Omniva has appointed Kushagra Vaid as its new CEO, amid a number of high-profile departures.

Vaid joined Omniva in early 2023 as EVP of AI cloud, following a 13-year run at Microsoft Azure, alongside roles at Lighmatter, d-Matric, and InsidePacket.

Backed by Kuwaiti money, Omniva originally began as a cryptomining enterprise, but shifted to targeting AI workloads in 2023 following the launch of ChatGPT. Across both ventures, the company has looked to develop its own two-phase immersion cooling system.

Vaid joined as part of the company's pivot, alongside Sean Boyle (the CFO of AWS until 2020), T.S. Khurana (Meta’s VP of infrastructure until June), Tyson Lamoreaux (former VP of Amazon's Project Kuiper, software, networking & infrastructure services), Matthew Taylor (previously SambaNova and Ampere), and Somnuk Ratanaphanyarat (TSMC).

However, most of the hires have since departed Omniva. Khurana and Taylor left in 2024, Lamoreaux in June 2025, and COO Boyle left this June. This month, technical lead Aaron Zou left the company.

Also departing this August was Kalin Stamenov, former McKinsey associate and de facto Omniva CEO (the company does not appear to have officially had a CEO prior to Vaid's appointment, with Stamenov named SVP and general manager of AI data centers). Stamenov has since launched his own data center business, Terisys.

The current status of Omniva remains unclear. The company did not respond to requests for comment. A previous public relations contact email bounced back with a suggestion to email a colleague who has also left. Vaid did not respond to requests for comment.

Omniva's website does not list any active data centers, but claims to offer an early access managed inference service. 2026 satellite imagery shows work still ongoing at its flagship Kuwait data center, once planned to support 1GW. Most of the site remains undeveloped.