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Kenny Hsu and the Arithmetic of Anywhere
He spent years making revenue predictable. Now Armada's chief business officer is helping take compute, connectivity, and AI to places where almost nothing is predictable.
Ulysse Saltiel
Ulysse Saltiel is an Associate in the Office of the CEO at Armada, the San Francisco edge-computing company building modular data centers and connectivity for the planet's most remote corners. A 2025 Pepperdine graduate who double-majored in finance and philosophy and finished summa cum laude, he founded the Pepperdine Finance Society and built the Coastal Capital Summit from a 50-person idea into a 350-plus person flagship event that has funneled students into JP Morgan, Citigroup and beyond. He came up through wealth management at Bordeaux Wealth Advisors and Pepperdine's $1.5B endowment office before landing at the right hand of Armada's leadership.
Dan Wright
Dan Wright is the Co-Founder and CEO of Armada, a San Francisco-based edge computing company building ruggedized, modular AI data centers deployable anywhere in the world - from oil rigs to military forward operating bases. Before Armada, he led DataRobot as CEO during its hypergrowth phase (peak valuation $6.3B) and was COO and General Counsel at AppDynamics through its landmark $3.7B acquisition by Cisco. A lawyer-turned-operator, Wright co-founded Armada in December 2022 alongside Jon Runyan, raised a $230M Series B at a $2B valuation in May 2026, and has deployed edge AI infrastructure across 43 countries for customers including the U.S. Navy and Aker BP.