Aethir

Mark Rydon is the Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Aethir, a decentralized cloud infrastructure platform focused on AI and gaming workloads. Under his leadership, Aethir scaled rapidly from a small startup in 2022 to a major Web3 infrastructure player with a $3 billion fully diluted valuation and the largest GPU fleet in the space.

With a background in environmental science, business, and large-scale project management at Bechtel Corporation, Rydon brings a mix of technical, operational, and strategic experience. He’s also involved with venture and gaming projects like Flux Capital, Gaas Global, and NOTA Club, further reinforcing his role at the forefront of decentralized computing innovation.