# Matt Garman

CEO, Amazon Web Services. TIME100 AI 2026, Leaders. He joined Amazon as an intern in 2005 on a project that would become AWS, and 19 years later became its CEO. ([kellogg.northwestern.edu](https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/news/blog/2025/11/20/intern-industry-leader-matt-garman-amazon/))

- Born: Scottsdale, United States ([bbntimes.com](https://www.bbntimes.com/technology/matt-garman-from-intern-to-ceo-of-amazon-web-services-aws))
- Education: MBA, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2006; MS, Industrial engineering, Stanford University, 1999; BS, Industrial engineering, Stanford University, 1998 ([kellogg.northwestern.edu](https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/news/blog/2025/11/20/intern-industry-leader-matt-garman-amazon/), [ir.aboutamazon.com](https://ir.aboutamazon.com/officers-and-directors/person-details/default.aspx?ItemId=80f6622c-efcb-4cce-94a7-591fb3d9a335), [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattgarman))
- Career: Amazon (CEO, 2006 to now); SideStep (Director of Product Management, 2001–2004); Riffage (Product Manager, 1999–2000) ([ir.aboutamazon.com](https://ir.aboutamazon.com/officers-and-directors/person-details/default.aspx?ItemId=80f6622c-efcb-4cce-94a7-591fb3d9a335), [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattgarman))
- TIME profile: https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/matt-garman/
- Profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/most-influential-people-in-ai/matt-garman

- Joined Amazon as a summer MBA intern in 2005, recruited by Andy Jassy to help on a new business before AWS had even launched. ([kellogg.northwestern.edu](https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/news/blog/2025/11/20/intern-industry-leader-matt-garman-amazon/))
- Spent five years as a product manager at two startups, Riffage and SideStep, before business school. ([linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattgarman))
- Was one of the first product managers for EC2, the rent-a-server service that kicked off the cloud computing era. ([platformer.news](https://www.platformer.news/matt-garman-aws-ceo-interview-ai-jobs/))
- Called replacing junior employees with AI "one of the dumbest things I've ever heard." ([platformer.news](https://www.platformer.news/matt-garman-aws-ceo-interview-ai-jobs/))
- Says that when he asked a room of CIOs in 2026 who was seeing real returns from AI, 90% raised their hands, unlike a year earlier. ([aboutamazon.com](https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws/aws-matt-garman-enterprise-ai-roi-interview-2026))