Flexport: Teresa Carlson takes the helm
Supply chain technology specialist Flexport has appointed former Microsoft and Amazon executive Teresa Carlson as president and chief commercial officer.
Carlson brings more than 25 years of innovation and leadership experience building global technology businesses in public and private sectors. She will oversee Flexport's sales, marketing and communications, as well as its impact arm Flexport.org.
Most recently, Carlson was corporate vice president and executive-in-residence at Microsoft. Prior to that, she was president and chief growth officer at Splunk, where she oversaw 70% year-over-year cloud revenue growth.
Before joining Splunk, Carlson served as vice president, Amazon web services (AWS), where she founded and led the worldwide public sector business for more than a decade, with a special focus on cloud computing. (cj)