Leadership sessions

Candi Castleberry
Vice President, Global Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), Amazon

Candi Castleberry is the Global Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) at Amazon. Her DEI career has spanned nearly two decades across various industries including technology, telecommunications, retail, and healthcare. As an intersectional leader, Candi stays closely connected to social issues and champions DEI in the community by serving on nonprofit boards, through mentoring DEI professionals, and engaging in intergenerational reverse-mentoring relationships.

Francessca Vasquez
Vice President, Technology and Customer Solutions

Francessca Vasquez is the leader of the Technology and Customer Solutions in the Worldwide Commercial Sales Organization at AWS. She is recognized as a thought-leader of business-technology cloud transformations and digital innovation, and is responsible for Technology Architecture, Enterprise Modernization & Migration, Innovation Engineering, and Workforce Diversity Equity & Inclusion. She and her team support global startups, digital native companies, Independent Software Vendors, Small Midsize Businesses, and Enterprises. She is a STEM advocate and active participant in non-profits that inspire cultural inclusion, equitable access, and diversity.

Mai-Lan Tomsen-Bukovec
Vice President, Object Storage, Monitoring and Observability, Messaging and Streaming services

Mai-Lan is the global vice president for AWS Object Storage services, Amazon Monitoring and Observability services, and Messaging and Streaming services. Mai-Lan has been an engineering and product leader for AWS services since 2010.

Bratin Saha
Vice President of Machine Learning and AI services

Dr. Bratin Saha leads all the AWS ML and AI services and is an alumnus of Harvard Business School (General Management Program), Yale University (PhD Computer Science), and Indian Institute of Technology (BS Computer Science). He has more than 70 patents granted (with another 50+ pending) and more than 30 papers in conferences/journals. Prior to Amazon he worked at Nvidia and Intel leading different product groups spanning imaging, analytics, media processing, high performance computing, machine learning, and software infrastructure.

G2 Krishnamoorthy
Vice President, AWS Analytics

G2 is Vice President of Analytics and leads data lake services (Lake Formation, Athena, EMR), data integration (Glue, Glue Elastic View, AppFlow) and OpenSearch. G2 brings two decades of experience in databases, big data analytics and ML, having built various parts of SQL Server database, Azure Analytics and Azure ML at Microsoft, to building and running big data warehouse and storage systems at Facebook/Meta.

Francessca Vasquez
Vice President, Technology and Customer Solutions

Francessca Vasquez is the leader of the Technology and Customer Solutions in the Worldwide Commercial Sales Organization at AWS. She is recognized as a thought-leader of business-technology cloud transformations and digital innovation, and is responsible for Technology Architecture, Enterprise Modernization & Migration, Innovation Engineering, and Workforce Diversity Equity & Inclusion. She and her team support global startups, digital native companies, Independent Software Vendors, Small Midsize Businesses, and Enterprises. She is a STEM advocate and active participant in non-profits that inspire cultural inclusion, equitable access, and diversity.

Diego Pantoja-Navajas
Vice President, New Products

In Diego’s current role as AWS VP of Business Applications, New Products his team is committed to transforming the way mission-critical, enterprise grade, cloud-based business applications are built, to give our customers the ability to thrive in an ever-changing environment that is challenging and evolving. Diego was formerly VP of WMS Cloud Development at Oracle where he was responsible for product development and management of the company’s cloud-based warehouse management system.

Nandini Ramani
Vice President, AWS Monitoring & Observability

Nandini is the Vice President of AWS Monitoring and Observability, which includes AWS-native, Application Performance Monitoring, and open source solutions that give customers insights into their technology stack at any time.

Kurt Kufeld
Vice President, AWS Platform

Kurt joined AWS in 2000 and is the Vice President of AWS Platform, overseeing management, governance, identity, and security services that help customers operate securely and safely in the cloud, at scale.

David Brown
Vice President, Amazon EC2

David is the vice president of Amazon EC2, a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. He joined AWS in 2007 as a software developer based in Cape Town, South Africa, working on the early development of Amazon EC2.

Deepak Singh
Vice President, Compute Services

Deepak leads the Containers, Linux, and High Performance Computing (HPC) businesses at AWS. He also leads the Amazon Open Source Program Office. Prior to joining AWS in 2008, Deepak spent many years in the scientific software and bioinformatics industry.

Jeff Carter
Vice President, Databases and Migration Services

Jeff Carter is the Vice President responsible for several database services, including Relational Database Services (RDS) Open Source and Commercial, Neptune, Elasticache, MemoryDB, DocumentDB, Timestream, and Database Migration Services.

Ken Exner
Director, AWS Developer Tools

Ken Exner leads AWS Developer Tools and its portfolio of over 30 products that help developers be productive on AWS. Ken has been with Amazon for 15 years and previously managed Amazon’s internal developer tools organization, where he drove the company-wide automation that supports Amazon’s modern DevOps practices.

David Brown
Vice President, Amazon EC2

David is the Vice President of Amazon EC2, a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. He joined AWS in 2007 as a software developer based in Cape Town, South Africa, working on the early development of Amazon EC2.

Max Peterson
Vice President, AWS Worldwide Public Sector

Max Peterson is Vice President for AWS Worldwide Public Sector. With over thirty years of public sector experience, Peterson is passionate about the power of cloud computing to drive digital transformation and achieve mission outcomes across government, education, healthcare, aerospace and satellite, and nonprofit sectors. Today, tens of thousands of public sector customers count on AWS to support their mission-critical systems, improve their security posture, become more agile, and lower costs.

Jeff Kratz
General Manager, World-Wide Public Sector Partners, Programs & Activation Sales, Latin America, Canada & Caribbean Government, Education, Healthcare & Non-Profit Sales

Jeff Kratz is General Manager for AWS Worldwide Public Sector Partners, Programs & Activation Sales. Kratz leads the AWS global partner community serving government, national security, education, non-profit, and public health industries. Kratz is passionate about accelerating partner innovation globally and guiding the evolution of partner models to amplify AWS cloud adoption.

CJ Moses
Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer

CJ Moses is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Amazon Web Services (AWS). In his role, CJ leads product design and security engineering for AWS. His mission is to deliver the economic and security benefits of cloud computing to business and government customers. CJ joined Amazon in December 2007, holding various roles in the utility compute and security organizations before becoming CISO in January 2022.

Holly Mesrobian
Vice President, AWS Lambda

Holly Mesrobian leads the Lambda and Fargate teams as the Vice President of Serverless Compute. In this role Holly is responsible for all business, product, and engineering focused on developing and running globally across all 25+ AWS regions.

Maureen Lonergan
Vice President, AWS Training and Certification

Maureen Lonergan is Vice President of Training and Certification for Amazon Web Services (AWS), where she leads a global team of builders committed to training the next generation of cloud talent. Maureen helps AWS customers, partners, and employees gain the skills and knowledge to unlock the power of the AWS Cloud in the age of digital transformation.