Lucas AtkinsChief Technology Officer · Arcee AIResearcher↗
Researcher · Engineer · Founder · Executive
Mark McQuade
Arcee AICo-founder and CEO
McQuade co-founded Arcee to help organizations run and adapt smaller language models in their own systems, retaining control of sensitive data and intellectual property. Under his leadership, Arcee brought MergeKit—the open-source model-combination tool created by Charles Goddard—into the company.
Career & education
Current roleArcee AI2023-presentCo-founder and CEO
Arcee AI2023-presentPreviously
Hugging Face2021-2022ML Success and Business Development Lead
Hugging Face2021-2022Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations543As of Jul 24, '26
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