Taimur Rashid is Chief Business Development Officer at Redis Labs, leading corporate strategy and emerging businesses with a specific focus on AI/ML. Before Redis Labs, Taimur was General Manager and Head of Customer Success at Microsoft, where he helped build one of the largest cloud focused customer success organizations in the industry. Prior to Microsoft, he was responsible global business and market development at Amazon Web Services (AWS) for ~10 years. He helped some of the most innovative companies adopt cloud including Airbnb, CapitalOne, GE, Dropbox, Netflix, Nordstrom, Samsung, and others. Taimur holds a bachelor’s in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin, and currently lives in Bellevue, WA with his wife and three boys, spending his time cross training, hiking, biking, and reading books on business strategy.