Top Health Care Execs to Watch in 2026: AWS’ Jamie Baker
Jamie Baker Director of Federal Civilian Health, Science and Public Policy, Amazon Web Services Jamie Baker’s team played a central role in deploying the $1 billion AWS OneGov program, a landmark investment designed to help every federal civilian agency accelerate the migration and modernization of legacy enterprise applications. Across the Department of Health and Human
Top Industry Execs to Watch in 2026: Amazon Web Services’ Dave Levy
Dave Levy VP, Worldwide Public Sector and Healthcare and Life Sciences, Amazon Web Services Dave Levy is particularly proud of his team’s role in the recent announcement that AWS will invest up to $50 billion to build the first-ever AI and high-performance computing infrastructure for U.S. government customers. This investment enables government agencies to achieve
Top Health Care Execs to Watch in 2025: Amazon Web Services’ Jamie Baker
Jamie Baker Director, Federal Health, Science and Policy, Amazon Web Services Supporting the federal health care community during the COVID-19 pandemic was especially meaningful for Jamie Baker. From drug discovery and vaccine administration to rapidly scaling telemedicine platforms, his teams worked backward from some of the federal government’s biggest challenges to help the American people.
AWS’ Christian Hoff on Cloud Strategies, AI Leadership
As the federal sector adopts technology transformations, Christian Hoff, an executive at Amazon Web Services, understands the trends aren’t just about having the shiniest new tools and services. They’re about meeting the mission in ways that impact the U.S.’s leadership at home and beyond. Recent executive orders emphasize artificial intelligence leadership, interagency system interoperability and
Top Cloud Executives to Watch in 2025: Amazon Web Services’ Renzo Rodriguez
Renzo Rodriguez Director – Federal Technology & Innovation, Amazon Web Services Renzo Rodriguez led the development and launch of Mission Innovation powered by AWS, a program that positions AWS as a trusted mission partner for government agencies. His team delivered key solutions, including the Tactical Edge Mission Framework for austere environments, the Supply Chain Command
Top AI Execs to Watch in 2024: AWS’ David Appel
David Appel Vice President of U.S. Federal, Amazon Web Services David Appel’s most significant recent achievement was assuming his current leadership position. Every day, he sees the direct impact of AWS technology, employees and partners on enabling customers across civilian, defense, financial and national security sectors to achieve their mission outcomes. His work with the
Top Cloud Execs to Watch in 2024: AWS’ Renzo Rodriguez
Renzo Rodriguez Managing Director of Federal Technology & Innovation, Amazon Web Services, Worldwide Public Sector In 2023, Renzo Rodriguez spearheaded the launch of an innovative mission solutions strategy in the Federal Technical organization. This initiative generated significant demand, indicating alignment with the federal push for advanced technological adoption. The strategy leveraged the scalability, security and
Top Space Execs to Watch in 2023: AWS’ Clint Crosier
Clint Crosier Director, Aerospace and Satellite Solutions, Amazon Web Services Under Clint Crosier’s leadership, his team conducted two first-of-kind on-orbit demonstrations in 2022 that helped show the value cloud can provide to space customers. Last summer, they also sent an AWS edge computing device called a “Snowcone” to the International Space Station. The device used
2022 Pinnacle Awards Winner: AWS’ Max Peterson
Max Peterson, vice president of worldwide public sector at Amazon Web Services, has won WashingtonExec’s 2022 Pinnacle Award for Cloud Industry Executive of the Year, Public Company. WashingtonExec on Nov. 30 unveiled the winners of the Pinnacle Awards, an annual program that embodies the WashingtonExec spirit of highlighting successful executives and businesses saving money and
Top Cloud Executives to Watch in 2023: Amazon Web Services’ Christian Hoff
Christian Hoff Director of U.S. Federal Civilian & Health Team, Amazon Web Services Over the past year, IT modernization and cloud adoption continued to play a critical role in transforming public sector service delivery. Christian Hoff says he’s proud of the work his team has done to support federal customers as they turned to AWS
2022 Pinnacle Awards Winner: Amazon Web Services’ André Kearns
André Kearns, marketing director of aerospace and satellite at Amazon Web Services, has won WashingtonExec’s 2022 Pinnacle Award for Marketing Executive of the Year, Public Company. WashingtonExec on Nov. 30 unveiled the winners of the Pinnacle Awards, an annual program that embodies the WashingtonExec spirit of highlighting successful executives and businesses saving money and fostering
Pinnacle Award Finalist Max Peterson: ‘You Have The Power To Choose Your Own Attitude’
The finalists for WashingtonExec’s Pinnacle Awards were announced Oct. 11, and we’ll be highlighting some of them until the event takes place live, in-person Nov. 30. Next is Cloud Industry Executive of the Year (Public Company) finalist Max Peterson, who’s vice president of worldwide public sector at Amazon Web Services. Here, he talks key achievements, learning
Pinnacle Award Finalist Clint Crosier: ‘The First Time I Commanded A Satellite Was A Turning Point In My Career.’
The finalists for WashingtonExec’s Pinnacle Awards were announced Oct. 11, and we’ll be highlighting some of them until the event takes place live, in-person Nov. 30. Next is Space Industry Executive of the Year (Public Company) finalist Clint Crosier, who’s director of aerospace and satellite at Amazon Web Services. Here, he talks career inflection points, proud
2021 Pinnacle Award Winner: Space Industry Executive Clint Crosier, AWS
Clint Crosier, retired U.S. Air Force major general and current director of aerospace and satellite solutions at Amazon Web Services, has won WashingtonExec’s 2021 Pinnacle Award for Space Industry Executive of the Year, Public Company. WashingtonExec on Dec. 8 virtually unveiled the winners of the Pinnacle Awards, an annual program that embodies the WashingtonExec spirit
Top 15 Health Care Execs to Watch in 2021: AWS’ Phoebe L. Yang
Under Phoebe Yang’s leadership, AWS has supported many of the nation’s most innovative and impactful health systems at the frontlines of the pandemic. She and her team have helped providers design solutions to tackle COVID-19, adopt new technology to solve the challenge of social distancing and migrate to the cloud to build advanced clinical capabilities impossible
Top 30 Space Execs to Watch in 2021: AWS’ Clint Crosier
Retired Maj. Gen. Clint Crosier said he was honored last year to be asked to help build the new AWS Aerospace and Satellite team, the newest global business segment — especially during a time of such tremendous growth and change in the industry. AWS has extensive experience helping commercial and government customers and partners in
Top 20 Cloud Execs to Watch in 2021: AWS’ Christian Hoff
Christian Hoff’s biggest achievement of 2020 was leading his team to support partners and federal customers through quick pivots to remote work, scaling up new programs and keeping critical citizen services running. Hoff is proud of the team he has built, the relationships it has cultivated with partners and the results delivered to federal agencies.
AWS’ Christian Hoff on Federal Innovation and How to Keep it Moving Forward
Amazon Web Services has been front and center amid the federal shift to cloud computing. We caught up with AWS Head of Federal Systems Integrators and Solutions Christian Hoff to talk about systems modernization and a GovCon’s role in spurring federal innovation. How does AWS approach innovation with federal customers? Our federal systems integrators team
Top 30 Public Sector Leaders to Watch in 2020: Amazon Web Services’ Dave Levy
Dave Levy has been with Amazon Web Services since 2017, and this year, he’s proud of his team’s work to support customers throughout COVID-19, particularly those in the nonprofit and health care spaces. “Adopting new technologies is helping our customers support people impacted by the virus and continue their important missions,” Levy said. “We’ve ensured
Stories from the Frontline: Inside the Tech Powering Government’s Pandemic Response
On July 23, Amazon Web Services hosted a webcast titled “Stories from the Frontline: Inside the Technology Powering Government’s Pandemic Response” to explore ongoing COVID-19-related transformations within the tech industry. The discussion included Energy Department’s Undersecretary for Science Paul Dabbar, Perspecta Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff Barry Barlow, Science Applications International Corp. Vice President
Top 25 DOD Execs to Watch in 2020: AWS’ Jennifer Chronis
Over the past four years, Jennifer Chronis has led the Defense Department business for Amazon Web Services, which supports customers of all missions and sizes. She previously spent 15 years in the federal IT industry and served for two decades of combined active and reserve duty in the U.S. Army as a logistics officer. Since
5 Questions on Innovation and Tech Potential for Army Veteran, AWS Exec Christian Hoff
Christian Hoff’s desire to serve is rooted in his military upbringing and led him first to the U.S. Army and eventually, to industry, where he helped build a new team focused on working with partners across the federal government. Hoff is the head of federal systems integrators at Amazon Web Services. He works with system
Save the Date: Easterseals Advocacy Awards, April 29
The Easterseals annual Advocacy Awards dinner will begin 6 p.m. on April 29 at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. The ceremony honors advocates who have demonstrated exceptional commitment to advancing opportunities for children and adults with disabilities or special needs, including military families. This year’s event will recognize Northern Virginia Technology Council President
1901 Group Named ‘Advanced Consulting Partner’ by AWS
1901 Group has earned a seal of approval from cloud giant Amazon Web Services. The Reston, Virginia-based managed-services provider has been named an Advanced Consulting Partner in AWS’ partner network. The partner network is aimed at professional services firms that help customers design, architect, build, migrate and manage their workloads on AWS applications. 1901 Group
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