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Charlie Bell

Executive Vice President, Security, Compliance, Identity and Management, Microsoft

Charlie Bell is the Executive Vice President, Security, Compliance, Identity and Management at Microsoft where he works  to make the digital world secure and safe for everyone. He brings to Twilio’s Board of Directors more than four decades of experience in the technology industry – from developing space shuttle software to leading the creation of Amazon Web Services’ decentralized engineering system and now as Microsoft’s most senior cybersecurity executive.

Prior to Microsoft, Charlie spent nearly 25 years at Amazon, much of his time spent as a leader of Amazon Web Services, his last role being Sr. Vice President. He grew the AWS business to what it is known for today, the broadest cloud services offering in the world. Before his time at Amazon Charlie was at Oracle for seven years, growing to become Director of Oracle's Professional Services organization responsible for working with some of Oracle's largest customers to deliver data-based solutions involving both partner applications and customer-developed software. Charlie began his career in Boeing as an engineer, during his time there he played a key role in missions such as STS-61B and the Hubble Space Telescope deploy mission, STS-31.