Ross Wilkers
Teresa Carlson serves as the vice president of the world wide public sector at Amazon Web Services where she is responsible for operations, strategy, sales and business development.
The more than 20-year industry veteranĀ is also the head public policy advisor for the global public sector at AWS andĀ oversees revenue and partnership strategy.
Prior to joining Amazon in 2010, Carlson was a VP of sales and operations for Microsoft Corp.’s $1.7 billion federal business where she was responsible for public sector sales in the U.S. as well as product marketing.
Carlson held a number of other roles at Microsoft during her eight years at the firm, includingĀ general manager of U.S. Civilian Agencies and NGOs, director of the U.S. federal solutions unit and U.S. federal director of strategy and operations.
Before joining Microsoft, she served as world wide vice president of marketing and business development for Lexign Inc. and led the relaunch of the company after a merger.
Carlson is also a veteran of the healthcare field, where she held roles including area vice president and business manager during 15 years in the industry.
SheĀ was aĀ Federal Computer WeekĀ Fed 100 award winner in 2013 and 2009 and has been named toĀ Washingtonian Magazine’s “100 Most Powerful Women” list. Her work in the community includes the roles ofĀ board chairman of the American Red Cross in the National Capital Region and member of theĀ WolfTrap Foundation’s board of directors.
Carlson received anĀ undergraduate and Masters of Science degree in communications and speech and language pathology from Western Kentucky University.
