Kathrin Renz — CEO

Kathrin Renz leads Amazon Web Services Industries business including sectors like BigTech, Financial Services, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Automotive & Industrial Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment and Retail & Consumer Goods. Renz is passionate about the Digital Transformation and she is deeply committed helping customers across the globe to accelerate their adoption of and migration to the cloud, most recently aided by Generative AI. Renz brings 25 years of international management experience having held a variety of technical and business leadership roles within companies like Nokia, Siemens and Amazon. Prior to joining AWS, she was Executive Vice President of Nokia Enterprise, responsible for managing the company’s fastest growing business that provides Enterprise Networks and Industrial Automation solutions to customers across various industries in BigTech, Energy, Transportation, Manufacturing and Public Sector. Prior to that, she was Chief Strategy Officer of Nokia, where she led the company’s corporate and business development efforts, including Nokia’s 15.6 billion Euro acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent. Renz is a strong advocate for empowering women in the tech industry. Most recently, she founded Amazon's diversity and inclusion initiative, “Women in Industries” to increase the number of underrepresented technologists in various industry sectors. Renz has received several honors over the years, including being recognized for her Lifetime Achievement Award by Mobile Magazine, and listed as one of the Global Telecoms Business 50 Most Powerful Women and 10 Top Tech Leaders. Renz earned her Diploma in Computer Science from the University of Cooperative Education, Germany, and her Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from The Open University London, UK.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in Telecommunications and Cloud Services with a focus on Digital Transformation.

Location: Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Experience: 24 yrs 5 mos