Neocloud Sharon AI has reshuffled its senior leadership team, with co-founder and chairman James Manning taking over the CEO role from Wolf Schubert.

Manning became CEO on January 23, having served as chairman of the company since its founding in 2024.

Prior to that, Manning had more than 20 years’ experience across corporate finance, accounting, business, asset management, and operations in both public and private companies, and has developed and monetized more than 300MW of HPC infrastructure in the US and Australia in the last eight years.

Commenting on his new role at the company, Manning said: "As co-founder and now CEO of Sharon AI, I’m thrilled to lead the company into its next phase of growth. We’ve built a strong foundation – with additional capital, key strategic partnerships, and surging AI demand – we’re well-positioned to deliver sovereign high-performance compute infrastructure at scale.

"I sincerely thank Wolf Schubert for his leadership over the past 18 months; his work has driven major milestones, and I’m pleased he’ll continue as Country Manager – USA to support our US development and Asia-Pacific hyperscale, AI lab, and global enterprise sales opportunities.”

Exiting CEO Wolf Schubert noted that his changing role is "logical" following Sharon AI's sale of its stake in Texas Critical Data Centers, which closed earlier this month.

He added: "This leadership alignment allows the business to focus on its core neocloud operations, delivering scalable, high-performance compute to research and enterprise customers throughout the Asia-Pacific region."

With the company's exit from TCDC, it is unclear what its ambitions for the US are.

Last week, Sharon AI revealed it had secured a $500 million debt facility to expand its AI infrastructure in Australia and the wider Asia Pacific region, shortly following a convertible note capital raise from December 2025, which provided $100 million to the company to fund its expansion.