Anne Szeto

Anne Szeto is the director of innovation initiatives for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Previously, she led a 125-person Strategic Recruiting and Academic Partnerships team at Amazon, where she was focused on building and cultivating internal and external specialized talent communities, particularly in applied research and design. The team is part of the Recruiting Engine unit, which builds next-generation technology to improve and enhance recruiting processes and the experience of job seekers.

Szeto also sits on Amazon’s Science Leadership team, which focuses on accelerating customer-obsessed science. She joined Amazon in 2008 as the company’s first executive recruiter and has recruited and coached senior leaders across multiple businesses globally. While at Amazon, Szeto has seen the company’s employee population grow by 100,000 times. She previously worked at an organizational design and executive search consultancy in New York. She conducted graduate studies in economics and Slavic cultures and languages. Her undergraduate studies were in biochemistry and history.