Christina S. Kite is a senior finance, operations, strategy, and technology executive with more than 20 years of experience with Fortune 50 and Government organizations leading large, global cross-functional teams and programs. Christina is currently the WW Strategy and Operations Director for the Technical Organization within Amazon Web Services (AWS). She is responsible for helping to set and drive customer, partner and employee strategies and initiatives across the WW Sales, Marketing and Global Services (SMGS) organization.

Prior to this role, Christina was a Vice President Business Strategy and Analytics within Oracle’s Application Cloud Development organization working on their flagship ERP suite of applications. Prior to her rotation into engineering, Christina was also a Vice President, Finance, for Oracle’s $4.5B North America Technology Division. Christina has also worked in a variety of senior executive positions, including her role as SVP of Strategy and Operations at the Federal Reserve Bank of NY, where she was responsible for the development and implementation of the Bank’s Financial Strategies and Financial Crisis Recovery Program. She was also a member of the Bank’s Operational Risk Committee, Credit Risk Committee and System Procurement Council. Christina also held the title of Vice President/CFO for the Corporate Real Estate Division at Goldman Sachs and was a VP of Finance in Cisco’s Treasury and Tax organization. Christina started her career as an aerospace engineer with the Northrop Grumman Corporation.

Christina graduated cum laude with a BS in Management Science and has an MBA from the Sloan School of Management at MIT. Christina holds a US Patent in Machine Learning (ML) which she recently received in April 2023. She is also an executive sponsor at the Women@AWS and is a Supervisor with the American Red Cross.