Lightning AI Adds Peter Bershatsky as VP of Strategy

Lightning AI, the PyTorch-tooling company that merged with GPU cloud provider Voltage Park in January 2026 to form a roughly $2.5 billion AI cloud, named Peter Bershatsky Vice President of Strategy and Business Development. Bershatsky, formerly VP of Corporate Business Development at Confluent and an early AWS executive, will lead partnership strategy across hyperscalers, systems integrators, and independent software vendors. The hire signals Lightning AI's investment in partner-led enterprise sales following the merger, which created the third-largest neocloud by GPU count behind CoreWeave and Nebius.

Lightning AI, the PyTorch-tooling company that merged with GPU cloud provider Voltage Park in January 2026 to form a roughly $2.5 billion, debt-free AI cloud, named Peter Bershatsky Vice President of Strategy and Business Development, per a GlobeNewswire release. Bershatsky will lead partnership strategy across hyperscalers, systems integrators, and independent software vendors. He joined AWS in 2013 during its growth from about $3 billion to more than $35 billion in revenue, and most recently was VP of Corporate Business Development at Confluent, where he helped lead the Immerok and Warpstream acquisitions. This is a go-to-market hire, not a technical or product change: it signals Lightning AI is investing in partner-led enterprise sales following the Voltage Park merger, which combined Lightning's PyTorch platform 400 million downloads, 240,000 developers with Voltage Park's roughly 35,000-36,000 NVIDIA GPUs across six U.S. data centers, making the combined company the third-largest neocloud by GPU count behind CoreWeave and Nebius.