Erick Stephens

Head of Security & Assurance of Latin America, Canada & Caribbean Regions, in Public Sector at Amazon Web Services (AWS), enabling government, education and nonprofit organizations into scalable and innovative cloud computing projects, while maintaining a secure and compliant environment.

Before joining AWS, +20 years’ experience in the global technology industry in LATAM & Asia regions. Most recently 5 years as CTO Asia for Microsoft Public Sector, empowering individuals, and building high performance multi-cultural teams to make a positive impact in the business.

Working every day to be an inspiring inclusive leader in the technology sector communicating the social and economic benefits of innovation to decision makers and government elites.

Entrepreneur, mentor, energetic, enthusiastic, team player, self-driven, creative problem solver, strategic thinker, avid learner, diplomacy sklills, change agent.

Key Accomplishments:

• Supported Digital Transformation projects, enabling new types of innovation, processes and change management.
• Cybersecurity evangelist, supported Asia top account teams with Trust (security, privacy, compliance and transparency) related engagements.

• Cloud Business Development focus, generated and supported new cloud sales pipeline on industry scenarios (government, healthcare, education, financial services, tourism) and advance workloads (AI, Blockchain, Dynamic Spectrum, IOT, Machine Learning).

• Designed Affordable Connectivity campaigns to increase cloud initiatives.

• Supported Disaster Response programs in Asia & Latin America.

• Organization Capabilities - Hiring, development of talent in international and multi-cultural environment.

Trabajando en amazon web services durante estos años llenos de retos en todos los sentidos ¿crees que la pandemia dejó claro la necesidad de tener un buen cómputo en la nube, además de una buena transformación  digita y cuál fue tu mayor reto al tener que mantener el estándar de seguridad  pero con el personal reducido o de forma remota ?.