Marcus W.
Private Equity Advisor @ AWS
- Role
- Private Equity Mergers and Acquisitions Specialist at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Location
- Tempe, AZ, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Marcus W.
Product and engineering leader with over a decade running start-ups (series A to C) and launching award-winning products within the retail, fashion, and health sectors. At AWS, I am an additional layer of support for Private Equity. I work closely with operating partners on maximising their AWS relationship/liaison to portfolio company AWS account teams, M&A (pre-acquisition diligence to exit readiness) and portfolio-wide initiatives such as agentic transformation and bottom-line optimization.
Experience
Private Equity Mergers and Acquisitions Specialist
Oct 2022 — Present · AZ, US
AWS Private Equity is an additional layer of support on top of Portfolio Company account teams. I Work with operating partners on portfolio-wide initiatives such as M&A and value creation. Additionally, I help facilitate \'M&A\' and \'Healthcare and Life Science (HCLS) Security and Compliance\' engagements across AWS as a SME. Programs/workshops include CxO mentoring, cost optimization, digital innovation, buy and sell side technical due diligence, implementing a product operating model, improving time to value, product strategy (I.e, GenAI, offensive vs defensive), and simplifying security and compliance burdens such as HITRUST for HIPAA, CCPA and GDPR.Attained TFC Legend award for contributions to pan-AWS M&A, and an AWSome All-Star award for contributions in turning around an \"unexitable\" HCLS PortCo for a leading PE firm.
Education
Newcastle University
Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering
2010 — 2011
Newcastle University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science
2007 — 2010
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