Werner Vogels

Dr. Werner Vogels is the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com, where he is responsible for driving the company's customer-centric technology vision. He joined Amazon in 2004 from Cornell University, where he was a distributed systems researcher. Vogels has played a crucial role in the development and promotion of Amazon's cloud computing services, helping transform enterprises into agile digital organizations. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and has received several accolades for his contributions to cloud computing​