Werner Vogels, Amazon.com

Dr. Werner Vogels is Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com where he is responsible for driving the 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 research scientist at Cornell University where he was a principal investigator in several advanced research projects that target the scalability and robustness of mission-critical enterprise computing systems. He has held positions of VP of Technology and CTO in companies that handled the transition of academic technology into industry.

Vogels holds a Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and has authored a large number of articles for journals and conferences, most of them on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing. He is a long time blogger at the All Things Distributed weblog