Ben is a lawyer, and has spent the last 15 years advising some of the world’s biggest companies on cloud computing, strategic technology projects, mergers & acquisitions, and general corporate and commercial matters. Ben has a global outlook and has been lucky enough to have worked in London, Hong Kong, Sydney, and Seattle. Ben has just returned to Sydney from Seattle where he spent over 4 years as a leader in the AWS Sales & Marketing legal team helping AWS’s global sales force negotiate a range of strategic cloud computing agreements with customers across all Geos and industry verticals (including financial services and health care), and inventing new ways to help AWS’s business continue to scale at unprecedented rates.