Prior to her role as Executive Director, Ms. Pearson served as the Head of U.S. Government Security Compliance Engagement at Amazon Web Services (AWS) with the responsibility of providing security assurances of AWS security and privacy claims to regulators, auditors, and customers. She had direct oversight and responsibility for delivering business outcomes that aligned with U.S. regulatory compliance. In this role, she facilitated and coordinated the assessment of services seeking authorization for various U.S. government security certifications (i.e. FedRAMP, DoD, CMMC) applicable to AWS East/West and GovCloud (US) regions, advised on government compliance matters internal to AWS, and was a liaison with regulators, customers and authorizing officials. Ms. Pearson served in public service leadership roles for over 19 years with the last position as the Deputy CISO and Director of Compliance at Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)