Government Cloud Management Conference 2020

Sandy Carter is Vice President, Public Sector Partners & Programs at Amazon Web Services. Her responsibilities include evolving partner models to intensify partner innovation, AWS cloud adoption, and creation of mission-critical cloud solutions with partners across the public sector.

She is the author of Extreme Innovation: Three Superpowers for Purpose and Profit, built on her research with Carnegie Mellon. Sandy was named Lifetime Achievement Winner, ‘Excellence in Cloud Achievement’ for 2019, AI Innovator of the Year Nominee in 2019, Top 10 AI Influencers for 2019, Top 10 Cloud Computing Influencer, Top 39 Engineers by Business Insider 2018, Top 50 AI influencer by Onalytica 2018, Top 10 Future of Work influencer in 2018, and Top 10 Women in Technology by CNN.

Sandy is the Chairman of the Board of Girls in Tech, and an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley. She was honored two times with the AIT United Nations Member of the Year award for helping developing countries with technology.

Jeff Valentine, Chief Technology Officer at CloudCheckr, is a growth leader for technology companies. He has started, invested in, bought, or sold 12 companies in the past 20 years for a combined value of more than $280 million.

Prior to joining CloudCheckr, Jeff was managing partner of private equity buyout firm Exium Partners, Chief Marketing Officer of Fonality, a telecommunications software company that he helped grow to $45M in revenue and sell to a strategic investor; SVP of product at M5 Networks, a software-as-a-service company that was acquired by ShoreTel, and Chief Executive Officer of Callfinity, a software company he co-founded and later sold.

Jeff is a member of the board of directors of several private companies and non-profit organizations including the Strong National Museum of Play, the Rochester Angel Network, and the Venture Jobs Foundation. He is a cum laude graduate of Cornell University in materials science and engineering with a concentration in polymer chemistry. Jeff lives in Fairport, New York, with his wife and two daughters, where he spends his spare time maintaining a ridiculous tree house.

Elissa Livingston is the Senior Vice President of Growth & Strategy at CloudCheckr. Elissa joined CloudCheckr in 2016 as an early employee and member of the management team; she has held a variety of leadership roles at the company throughout her tenure.

Elissa has a track record of shaping go-to-market strategies in high-growth technology companies, including developing and executing innovative and successful channel and alliance strategies. Elissa owns the CloudCheckr go-to-market strategy, including revenue-generating organizations and strategic alliances.

Before joining CloudCheckr, Elissa held leadership roles at D4 (acquired by Adecco Group), an industry-leading provider of eDiscovery and managed data services. Elissa also holds a Juris Doctor Degree from the University at Buffalo Law School and a BSS in Sociology and Law.

Dan is the Senior Director of Public Sector, leading CloudCheckr’s go-to-market public sector strategy with a focus on supporting the high security and compliance mandates of U.S. federal customers.

Stroman was formerly Director of Federal Partners at UiPath where he was responsible for driving partnership and channel sales of UiPath’s industry-leading RPA technology platform. Prior to that, Stroman held similar sales leadership roles at IBM, Microsoft, and CA Technologies.

Tina is the Senior Director of Sales for Carahsoft’s Amazon Web Services Team. She has played an instrumental role in creating and implementing numerous joint marketing and partner-focused call campaign programs over the previous year, which has led to net new business opportunities and growth of the partners’ existing footprint.

As Vice President, Sales, Enterprise Platforms and Cloud, Andre van der Post works with DLT’s channel partners to deliver best-in-class IT solutions from technology vendors such as Red Hat and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to the public sector. Andre previously served as DLT’s senior director of cloud programs where he led the development of DLT’s Cloud Navigator and helped public sector organizations accelerate their migration to the cloud. Prior to joining DLT, Andre held multiple strategic leadership roles at Oracle before joining AWS as its global partner programs and international partner lead, worldwide public sector.

Matt Jordan has led client engagement at JHC Technology, an Effectual company, since 2012. He is a Certified Solution Architect focused on delivering strategic guidance across Government and industry. Matt has been a speaker at numerous cloud events on topics ranging from Cloud Smart initiatives and Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) to Cloud Centers of Excellence and FISMA compliance.

Travis is an avid technologist, DevOps evangelist, cloud practitioner, and process junkie responsible for the CloudCheckr product roadmap and product management team.

He was formerly Director of Application Engineering at Siteworx where he managed a distributed hosting, operations and application development delivery team for Siteworx Managed Services.

Travis holds AWS Cloud Practitioner and AWS Solutions Architect certifications and was instrumental in the AWS Security Automation and Orchestration (SAO) launch for CloudCheckr in 2019.

A graduate of Syracuse University Information Management and Technology school, Travis resides in Rochester, NY.

Eric is a Sales Engineer at CloudCheckr and has been with the company since 2017. He holds four AWS certifications and is a graduate of Tufts University with a degree in physics. Eric is an avid problem-solver and has become an expert on the complex topic of cloud billing as he designs effective cost allocation solutions for CloudCheckr customers and prospects.

Aaron Gettings is one of the founding employees at CloudCheckr. He has held several roles in the company including customer support, quality assurance, and engineering operations. Aaron currently holds the title of Technical Product Manager, focusing on CloudCheckr’s Microsoft Azure support.

David Kalish has been at CloudCheckr since 2017 as a senior sales engineer. Passionate about strategic planning, David has helped thousands of companies evaluate their Information Technology Goals. He is a AWS Certified Solution Architect and has presented over 1,800 seminars on a wide array of topics.

Mike Schaub is the Information Security Manager for CloudCheckr and is responsible for implementing and managing Security and Compliance programs. Mike has over 15 years of experience in the cybersecurity field having spent most of his career in the highly regulated nuclear power field-building cybersecurity programs. For the past two years, he has worked at CloudCheckr building its cyber program and helping the company pursue FedRAMP authorization. Mike holds a number of certifications including the CISSP, GCCC, GCIH, and AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner among others.

Tanner is an Information Security professional and proven leader holding globally recognized certifications in cloud computing, security leadership, and strategic planning.

After securing ammunition for the Marine Corps, Tanner has spent the last decade securing systems in on-prem & co-lo data centers as well as the cloud for multiple industries, including financial & healthcare, in both the private & public sectors.

Currently serving as CloudCheckr’s Security Risk & Compliance Manager, Tanner is a staunch SecOps & GRC advocate that believes in SOAR & compliance-as-code, where practical, to complete the mission in a repeatable, audit-friendly fashion.