Alexander (Alec) Chalmers is a director on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Public Sector Team, where he leads the GovTech, EdTech, and Learning Companies. Prior to AWS, Alec spent nine years in sales leadership positions at Adobe in their public sector and commercial sales organization. Most recently, Alec was the Group Vice President for Adobe’s commercial healthcare organization. His other roles at Adobe included serving as their Vice President of National Government Solutions, which included responsibility for their state and local government business as well as the U.S. Federal Health & Human Services, Justice, and Treasury Departments.
Prior to joining Adobe, Alec was a Director at Symantec and Veritas software, where he had responsibility for DoD and State, Local and Education sales. He started his career as an intelligence officer for the United States Navy and deployed out of Norfolk, Va. Alec graduated from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., where he received a Bachelor of Science in Political Science. He currently lives in Leesburg, Va., with his wife, Maryanne, and their two children.