Teresa Carlson
Teresa Carlson is the Founding CEO of the General Catalyst Institute and serves on the board of directors of Commure, a healthcare software platform. She spent over a decade at Amazon Web Services as Vice President of Worldwide Public Sector, where she built AWS's government cloud business and was a central figure in the landmark $600 million CIA cloud contract that helped transform the intelligence community into cloud-first organizations. She is widely recognized for pioneering public-sector cloud adoption across federal, state, and local governments, and previously served as President and Chief Growth Officer at Splunk.
“Nobody shoots whiskey like Teresa. And the woman is truly a legend. They went to the CIA. And they told them, you guys are going to turn into cloud-first, cloud-native organizations.”
Source→“They went to the CIA. And they told them, you guys are going to turn into cloud-first, cloud-native organizations. And she did it in partnership with Jassy and the whole team there.”
Source→“What Alfred Lin, Hemant Taneja, and Teresa Carlson taught him.”
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