PagerDuty, Inc. announced the appointment of Teresa Carlson to the company?s Board of Directors. Carlson brings more than 25 years of industry experience and expertise in leading complex business transformations for premier SaaS, data management and cloud businesses, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Splunk, Microsoft and General Catalyst. Carlson spent more than a decade at AWS where she started the Worldwide Public Sector business unit, which included federal, central, and state and local governments, Education, Education Technology (EdTech), Government Technology (GovTech), nonprofits and non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

She also started an aerospace and satellite business unit and added responsibilities for other regulated industries. Previously, she was President and Chief Growth Officer at Splunk where Carlson was responsible for aligning sales, customer success and marketing leaders to drive business transformation across go-to-market business segments. During her time on Splunk?s executive leadership team, she successfully advanced cloud-first initiatives, created new market opportunities and accelerated growth.

Additionally, Carlson served as Vice President of Microsoft Federal Government, where she oversaw the company?s US Federal Government business. Carlson holds a bachelor of science and a master of science degree from Western Kentucky University.