Driving innovation at AWS Supply Chain, Vice President Diego Pantoja-Navajas leverages his extensive experience and entrepreneurial spirit to transform how businesses manage their operations. Having held roles as an engineer, consultant, entrepreneur, and CEO, Pantoja-Navajas has consistently focused on solving customer problems through innovation. He founded LogFire, a cloud-native supply chain company that transformed warehouse and inventory management before being acquired by a large tech company. At AWS, he continues to nurture a culture of bottom-up innovation, leveraging a vast array of AWS services to rapidly develop solutions for customers. His leadership in AWS Supply Chain aims to unify siloed data, providing improved visibility, automation, and AI-powered insights to make supply chains more resilient.
Under Pantoja-Navajas’ guidance, AWS Supply Chain uses a data-first approach to reimagine supply chain operations, scaling with AWS cloud and AI and ML technologies. This innovative mindset, coupled with Amazon’s Leadership Principles, ensures a common purpose and effective communication across global teams. Pantoja-Navajas emphasizes the importance of being open to customer feedback and taking calculated risks to iterate and improve solutions quickly. His commitment to customer success and relentless drive for innovation exemplify the entrepreneurial spirit that fuels AWS, making it a dynamic environment for those passionate about using technology to solve real-world challenges.
