GeekWire May 22, 2024
Three executives from Amazon Web Services were meeting with a top CIA tech leader, trying to come up with a creative solution to an issue that was facing the U.S. intelligence agency in the cloud, when Matt Garman picked up the marker.
“Matt is the one that took the whiteboard and started problem-solving immediately,” getting into the nitty-gritty details of how Amazon could accomplish what the CIA needed at that moment, recalled Teresa Carlson, who led the company’s expansion into the public sector industry from 2010 to 2021. “He got to it. He solved it.”
The choice of Garman as the next CEO of Amazon Web Services puts a longtime product leader at the helm of the market-leading public cloud...