Leaked AWS org chart: These 11 executives are helping Matt Garman take on the AI competition

AWS CEO Matt Garman

A leaked Amazon Web Services organizational chart shows the 11 executives helping its new CEO, Matt Garman, lead the unit through a period of intense competition in cloud computing and artificial intelligence.

Garman, an 18-year veteran of AWS, became its CEO in June. He took over from Adam Selipsky, who led the unit for three years after AWS’s previous CEO, Andy Jassy, was promoted to run all of Amazon.

Garman, who previously ran AWS sales and marketing, made a few changes to the cloud business when he took over, including combining global sales teams.

Since then, the biggest change to Garman’s team has been the hiring of Julia White as chief marketing officer.

Here are the 11 executives who report to Garman:

Julia White is AWS’s chief marketing officer. 

Julia White: vice president, Worldwide AWS Marketing

White joined AWS in November. She was most recently the chief marketing and solutions officer at SAP. Before that, she spent nearly two decades at Microsoft in roles including corporate vice president of product marketing for the Azure cloud unit.

“Julia will join my leadership team and further develop and execute our global marketing strategy, playing a pivotal part in AWS’s growth,” Garman wrote in an email announcing her appointment.

Peter DeSantis: senior vice president, AWS Utility Computing

Peter DeSantis. 

DeSantis was one of the first AWS employees and played a critical role in building up its technology. He’s a member of Jassy’s senior leadership team at Amazon, called the “S-team.”

DeSantis took over utility computing in 2021 when Charlie Bell, considered one of the founders of the cloud unit, left for Microsoft.

Prasad Kalyanaraman: vice president, AWS Infrastructure Services, Infrastructure Leadership

Kalyanaraman, who has spent nearly 20 years at Amazon, took over infrastructure and network services for DeSantis when Bell left.

Colleen Aubrey: senior vice president, AWS Solutions

Aubrey has spent nearly 20 years at Amazon but switched to AWS in May, around the time Selipsky left. She leads the AWS unit responsible for business applications. Aubrey is a member of Jassy’s S-team.

Elizabeth Baker: vice president, Private Pricing

Baker has been at Amazon since 2016 and runs the unit responsible for custom agreements between AWS and customers, providing terms like discounts based on usage. Baker’s past roles include positions at SAP and Oracle.

Werner Vogels: vice president and chief technology officer

Werner Vogels 

Vogels is technically the chief technology officer of Amazon overall, but he has another important role within AWS: He acts as one of the public faces of the company’s cloud business and technical infrastructure.

Greg Pearson: vice president, AWS Global Sales

After Garman became CEO, he integrated global sales teams under Pearson, combining AWS Global Sales, Worldwide Public Sector, the Greater China Region, and Sales Strategy and Operations.

Kathrin Renz: vice president, AWS Industries

Renz leads the organization responsible for industry-specific AWS products for customers. She’s had the role since 2020. Garman expanded her purview when he took over as CEO to include AWS Enterprise GenAI sales and the business-development vice president Scott Rosecrans’ team.

Laura Grit: vice president/distinguished engineer, technical advisor

Grit, a 17-year Amazon veteran, is the technical advisor to the AWS CEO. She previously led Amazon.com’s migration from on-premise data centers to AWS cloud services.

Ruba Borno: vice president, AWS Specialists & Partners, AWS WWCO Partner Management

Borno has been at AWS since 2021. When Garman took over, he put Borno in charge of a new unit combining its Channels and Alliances team, responsible for relationships between global partners and customers, and its Worldwide Specialist Organization, which connects service teams to customers.

Uwem Ukpong: vice president, Global Services

Ukpong runs the AWS Global Services Organization, which includes training; professional services in commercial and public sectors; customer support and managed services; and security. Garman expanded Ukpong’s role last year to include its Sovereign Cloud and International Product Management teams.