Chase’s leadership experience at Crusoe has included building a high functioning team of more than 1,000 professionals encompassing engineering, technology, business development, manufacturing, finance, law, operations and administration. Chase has also held key roles in more than $2 billion of fundraising with venture, project and credit capital investors for Crusoe. Prior to founding Crusoe, Chase was a quantitative researcher and trader at Jump Trading and GETCO, where he developed and managed a portfolio of algorithmic trading strategies. Chase holds undergraduate degrees in math and physics from MIT and a masters degree in computer science from Stanford, where he specialized in artificial intelligence. He was selected as a 2025 Henry Crown Fellow by the Aspen Institute, which mobilizes a new breed of leaders to tackle the world’s most intractable problems. As a personal interest, Chase has climbed five of the “seven summits” including Mt. Everest.