Stephen Schmidt is Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer for Amazon Web Services (AWS). His duties at AWS include leading product design, management, and engineering development efforts focused on bringing the competitive, economic and security benefits of cloud computing to business and government customers.

Prior to joining AWS, Schmidt had an extensive career at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where he served as a senior executive. His responsibilities at the FBI included a term as acting Chief Technology Officer, Section Chief responsible for the FBI’s technical collection and analysis platforms, and as a Section Chief overseeing the FBI’s Cyber Division components responsible for the technical analysis of computer and network intrusion activities. His Cyber Division oversight included areas of malicious code analysis, computer exploitation tool reverse-engineering, and technical analysis of computer intrusions.

Mike Clayville leads the global sales, professional services and training teams for Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this role, as a member of the AWS senior leadership team, he is responsible for providing strategic direction in the go to market strategy for AWS and helps the company shape it’s customer engagement strategy globally.

Prior to joining AWS, Clayville held many senior leadership roles within global technology companies, including VMware, BEA Systems, Tivoli Systems and IBM, where he built multi-billion dollar customer-focused businesses in North America and Asia Pacific. He brings his more than 25 year of business development, marketing, and operations experience to his current role at AWS in order to help companies of all sizes around the world to move to the cloud.

Clayville has an MBA from Texas A&M University and is a graduate of the University of Idaho with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering.