Dr. Werner Vogels

Dr. Vogels is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Amazon.com, where he is responsible for driving the company's technology vision: to continuously enhance the innovation on behalf of Amazon's customers at a global scale.

Prior to joining Amazon, he worked as a researcher at Cornell University, where he was a principal investigator in several research projects that target the scalability and robustness of mission-critical enterprise computing systems. He has held positions of Vice President of Technology and CTO in companies that handled the transition of academic technology into industry.

Dr. Vogels holds a PhD from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and has authored many articles for journals and conferences, most of them on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing. He was named the 2008 CTO of the Year by Information Week for his contributions to making cloud computing a reality.