Olivia Peterson

Olivia is a distinguished leader in technology with 25 years of experience driving innovation in the financial services sector. Currently, as the Director of Amazon Web Services Worldwide Public Sector Financial Services organization, Olivia spearheads initiatives that empower global financial regulators, monetary agencies, and housing and mortgage customers to achieve mission-critical outcomes. She leads a cross-functional organization of specialists dedicated to helping customers build secure and scalable AWS foundations, harness the power of their data, and mitigate risk through automation. Olivia partners with Global System Integrators, small businesses, and ISVs to inform cloud strategy and enable implementation. Olivia is a recognized thought leader on cloud strategy and emerging trends in Federal financial services. She has shared her insights at prominent events such as DC Fintech Week, GovExec, FedScoop, Mortgage Bankers Association, MISMO, SIBOS and AWS re:Invent and DC Summit. Before joining AWS, Olivia was the Senior Vice President of Client Services and Solutions at SS&C Primatics Financial, where she led the implementation, advisory, support, and outsourcing services for the EVOLV loan platform. She guided top-tier Banks, including Fannie Mae, JPMC, US Bank, PNC, Zions, M&T, KeyBank, Capital One, BMO Harris, and Silicon Valley through merger and acquisitions, stress testing, and distressed loan portfolio management. Prior to her tenure at SS&C Primatics, Olivia was a Principal Advisor at Fannie Mae and Senior Director of Business Initiatives at Freddie Mac, playing a pivotal part in both financial restatements. Olivia began her career in in financial services at KPMG, supporting clients such as HUD, Ginnie Mae, Fannie Mae, and OPIC in the development of financial systems and support for mortgage backed security portfolios. Olivia graduated with honors from James Madison University with a Bachelor’s of Business Administration, majoring in Financial Engineering.