Management Team

Andrew Karos
Andrew Karos
Founder & CEO

Andrew Karos has served as founder and Chief Executive Officer of Boost Run LLC since 2023, where he leads the company's enterprise grade GPU cloud infrastructure platform serving AI and high performance computing customers. Prior to founding Boost Run, Mr. Karos served as Managing Director and Head of Electronic Trading at Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd. (Nasdaq: GLXY) from 2020 to 2023, where he was a member of the executive committee. Galaxy Digital acquired Blue Fire Capital, LLC, the quantitative trading firm Mr. Karos co-founded and led as Owner and Chief Executive Officer.

At Blue Fire Capital, Mr. Karos built a sophisticated algorithmic trading operation that utilized over $500M in credit facilities for high frequency trading strategies across multiple asset classes, with global infrastructure spanning six countries and thirteen top-tier data centers.

Mr. Karos's career has focused on building and scaling technology driven businesses in highly regulated environments, combining expertise in quantitative finance, algorithmic trading, and infrastructure development. His track record encompasses successful company formation, capital deployment, risk management, and strategic exits in both traditional and emerging technology sectors.

Harry Georgakopoulos
Harry Georgakopoulos
Chief Operating Officer

Harry Georgakopoulos has served as Chief Operating Officer of Boost Run since April 2024. In his role as Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Georgakopoulos oversees operations for Boost Run's AI infrastructure and high performance computing platform. Prior to joining Boost Run, Mr. Georgakopoulos served as a Managing Director at Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd. (Nasdaq: GLXY) from November 2020 to March 2024, where he led the company's on chain activities, including researching and managing DeFi trades and working closely with the management team in driving strategic growth initiatives.

Before Galaxy Digital, he held the position of Head of Digital Assets at Blue Fire Capital, LLC from June 2015 to November 2020. Mr. Georgakopoulos began his career as an Electrical Engineer at Motorola after graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, before transitioning to developing and trading high frequency strategies in equities, futures, options, and digital assets. His expertise encompasses electrical engineering, quantitative finance, and operations management, with extensive experience implementing and deploying AI and reinforcement learning models within the engineering and financial sectors.

He is also the author of "Quantitative Trading with R: Understanding Mathematical and Computational Tools from a Quant's Perspective," published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2015. Mr. Georgakopoulos obtained a Master of Science degree in Financial Mathematics from the University of Chicago in 2005 and a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Technological University in 2001. He served as an adjunct lecturer in the Financial Risk Management program at Loyola University Chicago between November 2009 and February 2016. He earned his Bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999.

Erik Guckel
Erik Guckel
Chief Financial Officer

Erik has specialized expertise in financial planning & analysis, mergers & acquisitions, structured finance, debt capital markets and strategic management focused on the financing and deployment of proprietary technologies and strategic growth.

He has closed over $2 billion in corporate transactions, has managed a $3B debt portfolio and has secured funding for first-of-a-kind facility construction. He has also led the development of significant strategic partnerships and joint ventures in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Erik holds an MBA in Finance, Accounting and Economics from the University of Chicago, a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, and a BS in Chemical Engineering from UW-Madison, focused on computational science and engineering and applied mathematics.

Daniel Gormley-Rahn
Daniel Gormley-Rahn
Chief Technology Officer

Daniel Gormley-Rahn is the Chief Technology Officer of Boost Run, where he leads the strategy, deployment, and operation of large-scale GPU infrastructure powering advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads. He oversees the company's technical architecture and infrastructure strategy, ensuring secure, scalable, and highly reliable platforms that support customers' most demanding compute requirements.

With more than a decade of experience in network engineering, infrastructure operations, and technology leadership, Daniel has built and managed mission-critical systems across both high-growth technology organizations and complex operational environments. Prior to joining Boost Run, he served as a Network Engineer at Own Company (formerly OwnBackup), where he managed the company's global network infrastructure across five international locations and played a key role in advancing its architecture, security, and operational resilience. OwnBackup was acquired by Salesforce in 2024 for approximately $1.9 billion.

Daniel began his career in the U.S. Army as a Communications Sergeant with the 82nd Airborne Division. During his service, he was entrusted with maintaining and operating $1.5 million in communications equipment and was awarded the Army Commendation Medal for developing and implementing a battalion-wide radio communications program. His military background instilled a disciplined, security-focused approach to leadership that continues to guide his work in building resilient, high-performance technology infrastructure at scale.

Daniel is recognized for combining deep technical expertise with operational excellence, enabling organizations to deploy and manage complex computing environments that drive innovation and business growth.

Karim Ali
Karim Ali
Chief Information Officer

Karim brings nearly 20 years of infrastructure and engineering leadership across some of the most performance sensitive environments in technology. His background spans ultra low latency trading networks, managing microwave, millimeter wave, and global fiber infrastructure across four continents, to large scale cloud native SRE, where he led platform reliability and FedRAMP certification for a major SaaS security product, including a full migration to containerized orchestration.

Having served as both CTO and Head of Infrastructure, Karim has operated consistently at the intersection of deep technical execution and organizational leadership, designing and scaling complex infrastructure environments, standardizing incident response, and growing global teams through periods of significant growth and change, including a company acquisition.

In his role as CIO at Boost Run, Karim applies this breadth of experience to drive a cohesive, forward looking technology vision grounded in operational discipline and security first thinking, the hard won instincts of someone who has built and run infrastructure where the cost of downtime is measured in real time.