California SLED Insider Pritchard Joins AWS

After a brief tenure at Palo Alto Networks, Dai Pritchard has announced that she has joined Amazon Web Services as a principal account executive focused on the state of California.

“When a once-in-a-career opportunity presents itself, you say ‘yes,’” Pritchard wrote in a LinkedIn announcement.

Pritchard had been working with Palo Alto Networks as a named account manager since July and was previously a director with Microsoft’s California sales team for two and a half years.

Before her time at Microsoft, Pritchard was with VMware in a number of roles that focused on the California SLED market.

Pritchard has also held roles with Plan B Limited, Vodafone, Verizon and Sprint Nextel. She holds a Bachelor of Science in mass communication from Florida State University.