Taimur is an accomplished product and business executive with over two decades of experience encompassing leadership roles in product, market/business development, and cloud solutions architecture and engineering. His expertise spans big tech firms and growth-stage startups, particularly in areas bridging technology, product, business, and Go-To-Market (GTM). He currently leads AWS Professional Services’ portfolio of Generative AI solutions, building end-to-end AI solutions for customers.
Before re-joining AWS, Taimur served as EVP of Artificial Intelligence at Redis, where he built the AI/ML business from the ground up, leading product strategy, product development, and market introduction, while also contributing to Redis’s IPO readiness through strategic projects. He also founded Recursion Venture Capital, a boutique venture capital and management consulting firm, wherein he formalized 5+ years of angel investing into being a micro-VC, and over a decade worth of GTM experience into a management consulting practice.
At Microsoft, as GM and Head of Customer Success and Customer Engineering for Azure Data and AI, he built a top-tier organization focused on helping enterprise organizations with cloud migration, data modernization, and digital transformation for Azure Data & AI. Previously at Amazon Web Services, Taimur spearheaded product marketing and GTM specialist teams, contributing to the $25B annual run-rate business of AWS, and cloud adoption by industry leaders like Adobe, Airbnb, CapitalOne, GE, Netflix, and Samsung.
Taimur is a University of Texas at Austin alumnus with a focus on automata theory and knowledge-based systems. He resides in Bellevue, WA, where he maintains an active lifestyle, pursues painting, coaches youth basketball, teaches data science, and serves on the board of Kindering, a non-profit supporting children with diverse abilities.