Michael Greenwald
Michael B. Greenwald is president of corporate affairs for Replit, the leading agentic software creation platform. In this role, he leads the Replit for Government business globally, corporate partnerships, agentic commerce, and corporate communications.
Greenwald previously served as director of global executive relations at Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this role, he pioneered AWS’ international business expansion, crafted the global public-sector business strategy, and spearheaded the integration of generative AI into public-sector systems. He worked with heads of state and CEOs in national security, defense, finance, transportation, energy, and health at the global, federal, and state levels to identify what they needed to drive scale and make the US more competitive in these sectors. This work gives him firsthand insight into the potential of AI to transform the public sector, namely the issues currently being solved for, what issues are yet to be addressed, and how leveraging this technology can drive US competitiveness. Greenwald was appointed by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to represent Amazon on the CFTC’s Technology Advisory Committee and plays a critical role in implementing AI leadership globally.
Before joining Amazon, Greenwald made significant contributions to the growth of global asset management firm AITi Global. As chief geopolitical risk officer leading financial technology for the firm, he helped oversee the growth of the firm from $12 billion to $50 billion in assets under management. Prior to AITi Global, Greenwald worked for the US Treasury Department for almost a decade. Greenwald made significant national-security contributions to the US Treasury, where he served in senior diplomatic, policy, and intelligence roles in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East under two presidential administrations and three Treasury secretaries, culminating in his becoming the first US Treasury attaché to Qatar and Kuwait. Greenwald built the first US Treasury office in Qatar and Kuwait, acting as the principal financial diplomat to the banking sectors in those nations. Greenwald played an active leadership role in the US sanctions campaigns against Russia, Iran, and al-Qaeda.
He is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is affiliated with the Atlantic Council, the Center for a New American Security, the Trilateral Commission, the Bretton Woods Committee, Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue University, French-American Foundation, and Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center. He has held adjunct teaching roles at Columbia University’s School of International Affairs and at the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School and has a juris doctor from Boston University School of Law, a master’s degree from the Pardee School, and a BA from George Washington University.
Raised in Brookline, MA, he lives in West Palm Beach, FL, with his wife, Nolan, and served on the Board of the Town of Palm Beach Investment Committee. He was honored by Palm Beach Illustrated as one of the city’s 100 most influential business leaders in 2021.