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Teresa Carlson, Splunk's new president and chief growth officer, was the vice president of worldwide public sector at AWS. Splunk

Teresa Carlson was the vice president of worldwide public sector and industries at AWS, and first founded the Amazon cloud giant's public sector division in 2010.

Prior to joining Amazon, Carlson was in charge of Microsoft's federal government business. Her over two decades of experience in the public sector have made her a well-known leader in federal IT circles, and she is credited with building up the bulk of Amazon cloud's now significant federal business, as well as leading the charge for Amazon's bid for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract.

After Carlson was announced as the new president and chief growth officer of $22 billion data company Splunk in April, CEO Doug Merritt told Insider that she would operate as a "mini-CEO within the business," running her own playbook across its sales, marketing, and services organizations, and utilizing her relationships within the public sector.

Now, Carlson seems to have set a trend: Less than two months after Splunk announced her appointment, Splunk revealed another prominent AWS leader is joining the company.

Shawn Bice first joined AWS in 2016, where he was responsible for database products including Aurora, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, and many others. Like Carlson, Bice also worked at Microsoft prior to Amazon, and spent 17 years overseeing Microsoft products including SQL Server and Azure data services.

When he joins Splunk as President of Products and Technology on June 1, Bice will be responsible for the company's technical units, including the CIO, CTO, and CISO functions, and have a focus on cloud technologies. Splunk recently lost its CTO Tim Tully to venture capital firm Menlo Ventures.

"When it comes to data, we have only scratched the surface, and there is a tremendous opportunity for customers to reimagine and accelerate their business, both in the cloud and on-premises edge," Bice said in the company's press release.

According to the company, Splunk has attracted over a dozen new execs over the past year from companies including Salesforce, Google, Okta, Dropbox, and Autodesk to help navigate its next phase of growth.

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