Happiness as a metric with Lee James, Strategic Accounts Leader - Solution Architecture, Partners and Customer Solutions Management, AWS

In episode four, David speaks to Lee James, an experienced technology leader and strategist who is currently working at AWS.

Lee has been fascinated by how data feeds human interactions since spending his youth on his parents’ market stall. It was there that he learnt how finding and using the right information fast could influence a customer’s behaviour and purchase decisions.

He carried this passion for exploring patterns of customer behaviour into his career in data and technology. Before joining AWS, Lee was CTO at RackSpace where he helped lead the company’s transformation into public cloud, application, and machine learning and AI services. He was also the voice of RackSpace, responsible for analyst relations and the executive sponsor across many of their strategic accounts.

He has also held senior strategy positions at Betfair, where he built the first ever iOS application, and BP, where he rolled out the first global VMware farm.

Lee’s breadth of experience provides the basis of a fascinating session on David’s Domo Data Therapy couch. Together, they discuss the mentors who have shaped Lee’s thinking, explore why technical ability must be linked with human psychology to make lasting change, and reveal that happiness is the crucial metric that more businesses should consider.

Listen now to find out Lee’s thoughts on the biggest topics in data.