Bhavik has worked in the technology and communications fields for over 20 years, and has focused on cloud computing for the last 10. Since starting his career in product management at HP in Scotland, Bhavik has held a variety of sales engineering, business development and product marketing roles at leading technology companies, including HP, Agilent, Reliance Communications and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Prior to joining AWS in 2012, Bhavik was the Director of Cloud Services & Partnerships at Aspera (acquired by IBM), where he managed partner/alliance relationships and help found Aspera’s cloud services business unit. Bhavik is currently responsible for the AWS Global Media and Entertainment partner strategy, managing the global partner ecosystem and working to accelerate large-scale cloud transformation at customers like Discovery, Fox, CBS and Turner. Bhavik holds a B.Eng (Hons) EE degree from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh and an MBA from Golden Gate University in San Francisco.