Brad Steele

Brad is the General Manager of North America and Managing Director of Global Partnerships for Thought Machine. Prior to Thought Machine, Brad spent 10 years at AWS as Managing Director of Startup Business Development, a global business unit consisting of hundreds of employees across 22 countries. At this role, Steele is responsible for building and executing on a strategy to gain broad adoption of AWS by technology startups and scale-ups worldwide. Prior to AWS, Brad spent 18 years in various senior leadership roles within the commercial, retail and treasury management units of multiple U.S. banks, including Comerica Bank, Riggs/PNC, Citizens Bank/SunTrust, Norwest/Wells Fargo, and Square 1 Bank, a challenger bank where he was a founding member of the bank’s senior leadership team.