Clarenza AICEO and Co-Founder
Oct 2025 — Present
Daniel Baker is co-founder and CEO of Clarenza AI and a former co-founder and CTO of Impossible Cloud. His earlier work spans product and engineering leadership at D2iQ, global cloud and data-center operations at Iron Mountain and Recall, and interim AI product roles at NEAR Protocol and Kreatoors.ai. He studied business at Monash University and completed non-degree MITx professional education in AI, data science and entrepreneurship.
Daniel Baker is co-founder and CEO of Clarenza AI and a former co-founder and CTO of Impossible Cloud. His earlier work spans product and engineering leadership at D2iQ, global cloud and data-center operations at Iron Mountain and Recall, and interim AI product roles at NEAR Protocol and Kreatoors.ai. He studied business at Monash University and completed non-degree MITx professional education in AI, data science and entrepreneurship.
Career
Kreatoors.aiInterim CTO (Part-time)
Nov 2024 — Feb 2025
NEAR ProtocolInterim Technical Product Lead
Jun 2024 — Feb 2025
Advisory and fractional role focused on AI and decentralized infrastructure.
Impossible CloudCTO and Co-Founder
Dec 2021 — Oct 2024
Protocol Labs, Compute Over Data Working GroupContributing Member
Jul 2022 — Aug 2024
D2iQSenior Director of Product
Sep 2019 — Dec 2021
Also served as Head of Engineering and Product / Acting VP Engineering from July to December 2020.
D2iQSenior Engineering Director and Hamburg Site Lead
Mar 2017 — Aug 2019
Iron MountainSenior Global Director, Cloud Services and Data Centers
May 2016 — Feb 2017
RecallSenior Global Director, Cloud Services and Data Centers
Jan 2015 — Jan 2017
RecallSenior IT Director / Regional CIO, Europe
Jan 2013 — Jan 2015
RecallProduction Support, Architecture and Delivery Management
Oct 2007 — May 2013
European Production Support Manager (2007–2010); Senior Global Architecture and Implementation Manager (2010–2011); global operations and European delivery management (2011–2013).