Amazon CTO Vogels: The 4 Types Of CTOs

Amazon CTO Werner Vogels sees four types of CTOs, including his own role as a "customer facing CTO."

Chris Murphy, Editor, InformationWeek

September 15, 2009

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Amazon CTO Werner Vogels sees four types of CTOs, including his own role as a "customer facing CTO."Vogels, InformationWeek's 2008 chief of the year, laid out is thinking at this week's InformationWeek 500 conference. Here's his list:

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Chris Murphy

Editor, InformationWeek

Chris Murphy is editor of InformationWeek and co-chair of the InformationWeek Conference. He has been covering technology leadership and CIO strategy issues for InformationWeek since 1999. Before that, he was editor of the Budapest Business Journal, a business newspaper in Hungary; and a daily newspaper reporter in Michigan, where he covered everything from crime to the car industry. Murphy studied economics and journalism at Michigan State University, has an M.B.A. from the University of Virginia, and has passed the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) exams.

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