Emmanuel Pillai is the Head of AWS Training and Certification for ASEAN at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he is responsible for delivering and scaling cloud skilling programs to learners and organizations across the region. AWS Training and Certification equips individuals and organizations with in-demand cloud skills and best practices to leverage the AWS Cloud and innovate in the digital world.

Emmanuel is based in Singapore and joined Amazon in 2017. He focuses on assisting organizations build a resilient workforce by cloud technology training and upskilling of individuals. He has launched and leads numerous customer upskilling and reskilling initiatives in the ASEAN region including cloud skills enablement programs, national skills uplift schemes and developing the workforce of tomorrow activities.

Prior to AWS, he spent several years in commercial leadership in the Optical Technologies group of IDEX Corporation serving the semiconductor and medical industry in Asia. He holds a PH.D in Chemistry from the University of Georgia, USA and Executive MBA from INSEAD.