Richard Halkett

Richard Halkett serves as Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Customer Officer at SambaNova Systems, overseeing worldwide sales, marketing, partners, customer engineering, and customer success since March 2023. Previously, Richard held key leadership roles at Amazon Web Services (AWS) from July 2017 to March 2023, including Managing Director of Innovation & Transformation Programs and Worldwide Lead of Digital Innovation. Prior experience at Cisco spanned nearly nine years, during which Richard directed various initiatives in global sales, digital transformation, and customer success. Richard also founded and led Boxmind, an educational technology company, and contributed to policy and research at NESTA and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Richard holds a BA in Modern History from the University of Oxford and a Master of Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley.