Austin Adams is a Senior Manager in the AWS WWPS Partner business, and brings 21 years of international Public Sector IT experience including sales and delivery leadership roles at different partner type organizations, including ISVs, SIs, CSPs, and resellers. Austin holds Global responsibility for AWS’s execution and strategy in distribution, partner concierge, VMware Cloud on AWS and strategic solution providers/resellers areas, which includes the development and activation of new public sector Partners across the globe. Austin graduated from Georgetown University with an Executive Masters in Leadership and is a proud James Madison University alum.

Bill Taylor is the Senior Director of Cloud Services Sales in North America for VMware. Bill has been a sales leader in the Cloud Services Business Unit for five years, serving all Customer Segments for North America during his tenure and is passionate and committed to a Partner Led go to market model.

Bill has over 30 years of experience in the Computer Networking industry. Prior to VMware, Bill had a successful 15-year career at Cisco Systems, leading the Telco Service Provider Partner Organization, driving the adoption and go to market for Cloud and Managed Services with some of the largest Service Providers in the US.

Bill received a Master of Applied Science from the University of Denver and his BA in Economics from the University of Arizona.

Bill lives in Denver, CO with his wife and two children. He is an avid skier, golfer and passionately serves as an adviser to the Board of Directors for the local Leukemia and Lymphoma Society chapter.

Leonard Niebo is the Vice President for Technology and CIO at The College of New Jersey and also an adjunct professor in the TCNJ School of Business. Prior to working in higher education, Len was a CIO/Technology Director for large K-12 school districts including a national charter school network.

Len has presented at many local, state, national and international conferences including Educause Connect, ISTE, CoSN, and FETC on topics that vary from Artificial
Intelligence and VDI to the effective use of technology in the classroom. Len was invited to be the keynote speaker at the province of Alberta, Canada’s Technology Leaders in
Education Conference.

Len is immensely intrigued with the administrative and functional use of artificial intelligence and machine learning and the role these technologies will play in the evolution of higher education.

Len is an alumnus of the Richard Stockton University where he received his BA degree in History and Teacher Education. He received his MA in Educational Technology
Management from Columbia University – Teachers College. When not working on his doctoral studies or cheering on his kids in soccer and Irish step dance , Len can be
found stand-up paddleboarding on the Manasquan Inlet and attending concerts at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park.

Matt McGrath is the US SLED and SLG Public Sector leader for VMware Cloud on AWS at Amazon Web Services. He has been with AWS for 2 years, before joining the AWS team Matt spent 6 years at VMware where he gained the knowledge and unique point of view to passionately handle the relationship between VMware and AWS. He spends his days teaching organizations how to innovate faster and deliver more value with less effort with VMware Cloud on AWS.

Tim Hearn has been a leader in the technology sector 25 years and currently heads up the VMware Cloud on AWS business for Public Sector across the United Kingdom and Ireland.

 Tim and his team help a wide range of public sector customers migrate to the AWS Cloud using the VMware Cloud on AWS platform to accelerate their modernisation journey.

 Tim works with the VMware UK leadership team to ensure customers get the best support from both companies by deploying appropriate programs and engagement through our mutual partners.

 Prior joining AWS, Tim spent six years in senior leadership roles at VMware (running the UK Public Sector business and then building the VMware Cloud on AWS business in Northern Europe), as well as management roles in tech industry’s leading companies, such as F5, Juniper, Cisco and technology roles at IBM.

 Tim lives in Hampshire, England with his wife, and has 3 children, 4 grandchildren and 2 dogs. He is a keen motorcyclist, cyclist, and paddle boarder, and is currently trying to master the bass guitar.

Neill is a Cloud, Virtualisation and Linux specialist. He is currently the Head of Infrastructure at The Scottish Government (ARE Directorate). Neill specialises in leading and managing multidisciplinary technical teams. He also has strong hands-on technical knowledge, whilst being highly proficient in Cloud, Virtualisation and DevOps technologies. Neill is an accomplished public speaker, having previously spoken at numerous major technical conferences including AWS re:Invent, VMworld and Gartner Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies.

Matt McGrath is the US SLED and SLG Public Sector leader for VMware Cloud on AWS at Amazon Web Services. He has been with AWS for 2 years, before joining the AWS team Matt spent 6 years at VMware where he gained the knowledge and unique point of view to passionately handle the relationship between VMware and AWS. He spends his days teaching organizations how to innovate faster and deliver more value with less effort with VMware Cloud on AWS.

Scott Beckwith is the Director for VMware Cloud on AWS solutions for VMware’s healthcare vertical responsible for driving VMware’s cloud business for healthcare providers nationally. He’s been with VMware for over 6 years supporting healthcare providers in various sales roles across the company and overall, he’s spent over 8 years of his career supporting Healthcare providers.