Silk Appoints Industry Veteran Aaron Shoffa As Chief Business Development Officer

Boston, MA — April 21, 2026 — Silk, the data platform purpose-built for AI inference, today announced the appointment of Aaron Shoffa as Chief Business Development Officer. A proven industry leader with deep expertise at the convergence of AI and enterprise infrastructure, Shoffa will spearhead Silk’s neocloud and inference cloud go-to-market strategy — building the partnerships and commercial frameworks that position Silk as the data platform of choice for the neocloud ecosystem powering today’s AI inference workloads. 

“Aaron brings exactly the strategic firepower we need as AI inference moves from experimental to mission-critical across every industry,” said Dani Golan, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Silk. “Neoclouds and inference clouds are where AI inference is being built and run at scale — and they need a data platform that can keep pace. Silk was built for this moment. Aaron will be the force multiplier that turns our technical differentiation into a dominant neocloud market position.” 

Shoffa joins at an inflection point. Neoclouds and inference clouds — the next generation of cloud providers built from the ground up to run AI inference — are rapidly displacing legacy infrastructure for inference-at-scale deployments. As AI moves from training to real-time inference in production, the demands on data infrastructure have fundamentally changed. Legacy general-purpose platforms, built long before today’s inference workloads existed, are buckling under the pressure. Silk was engineered for precisely this environment: delivering 100x faster performance for mission-critical workloads at 50% lower cost. Shoffa’s mandate is clear —interface with the neocloud and inference clouds, forge strategic partnerships, and build commercial models that make Silk the default data platform wherever AI inference runs. 

“Neoclouds and inference clouds are the new center of gravity for AI infrastructure, and the data platform question is still wide open,” said Shoffa. “Silk has cracked the code on performance and cost at exactly the moment when that combination is worth everything to neocloud operators. I’ve seen a lot of technology cycles. This one is different — and Silk is positioned to win it.” 

Prior to joining Silk, Shoffa served as Chief Channel Officer at SingleStore, where he scaled partner revenue and enterprise go-to-market motions across the data platform space. He has also held senior leadership roles in business development, strategic alliances, and GTM execution at Conga and TIBCO Software — building a track record of turning technical differentiation into durable commercial growth through partner channels. 

About Silk

Silk is the only purpose-built data platform for AI inference. General-purpose cloud infrastructure wasn’t designed for today’s AI workloads — the real-time demands, the data velocity, the inference-at-scale requirements. Silk was. By eliminating the resource constraints and complexity that hold other data platforms back, Silk enables customers to run AI inference 100x faster at 50% less cost while dramatically minimizing energy consumption. 

When data powers everything, the platform beneath it must be without compromise. 

Learn more at silk.ai.  

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