Chris Niehaus

Chris brings over 20 years of executive-level experience in business product management, business development, sales, and strategy at Google, Microsoft and Amazon. Chris is currently at Google Public Sector as a Business Development Executive in the federal business. Previously, he was the Head of Growth and Operations for the Global Leadership Development team at Amazon where he drove worldwide adoption of the company's next-generation, AI-powered, learning system. At Microsoft, Chris built and sold cloud infrastructure and solutions across commercial and public sectors, ensuring compliance with critical security and privacy requirements. He has a track record of scaling businesses, launching new products, and delivering successful go-to-market strategies. Chris is a results-driven leader experienced in managing global teams, P&Ls, and high-performing sales and technical teams.

+ Leadership roles from active duty military to incubation products to multi-billion dollar global businesses including U.S. Army (overseas and deployed), Microsoft, AWS, Amazon, and Google.

+ Led the development and growth of four new-revenue partner programs and solution initiatives, and launched 15 cloud datacenter regions across six global geographies.

+ Led technical sales teams for both enterprise and small business segments, growing revenue for each to over $500M annually.