Amazon elected Kevin Mandia to its Board of Directors on September 8.
Mandia founded Mandiant and served as its CEO before Google acquired the firm in September 2022, and he has worked against cyber threats in the public and private sectors for more than 30 years.
Amazon called cybersecurity “one of the most consequential risks and responsibilities organizations face today,” and pointed to advances in AI as the reason the threat landscape keeps moving.
That is the company’s stated reason for putting the expertise at board level, where directors decide which questions management has to answer.
Ballistic Ventures keeps Mandia close to the companies being built now, and Armadin keeps him running one.