Joel is a distinguished business development and sales leader who has a broad set of experiences at emerging companies as well as large technology companies, most recently at AWS. He has implemented a broad spectrum of technologies, including application modernization, hybrid cloud computing, networking, open-source deployments, data and analytics, and most recently, Generative AI integration. During his business career, he served in the US Army Reserves and was deployed globally and served in Norway, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Iraq, and Afghanistan, earning a Bronze Star and retiring as a Colonel.