About Renee Berry
Renee Berry is currently a partner development manager with the AWS Global Startup Team.
Most recently, she supported startups interested in working with the public sector as the Global Lead of AWS Startup Ramp where she designed new mechanisms for early stage startups and public sector teams creating the next generation of products and services in government, health, space, and sustainability to access content, community, connections, and credits with launches across Japan, South Korea, Singapore, South East Asia and India. Renee built the operations infrastructure to scale the global network of AWS Cloud Innovation Centers which gives organizations the opportunity to learn about Amazon’s innovation methodology and experiment with new product development by leveraging the cloud and the technology expertise of AWS team members.
She led Brand Strategy at Kenandy, a B2B software as a service [SAAS] startup backed by Kleiner Perkins, Salesforce and Lightspeed Ventures, directing a brand transformation and all elements of the company’s brand development including website design and engagement, product marketing campaigns, public relations, social media audience development and search engine optimization. Renee’s background includes advising startups on strategy and operations. Her presentations on digital media include engagements at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, the Mountain View Chamber of Commerce, Harvard Medical School, UCSF and Rock Health.
Before Kenandy Renee was the global marketing and communications lead for mobile and connected solutions at SanDisk, a $2 billion dollar business unit for the Fortune 500 company which is best known for their USB retail product line but also a market leader in providing the embedded storage in smartphones, IoT products and the data storage centers that power the cloud. Specifically, Renee managed go-to-market communications strategies for the SanDisk’s automotive, connected home and mobile product lines, created the company’s first corporate social media communications policy, and produced a global communications training for SanDisk that struck a balance between protecting the conservative nature of the manufacturer with over 5,000 patents while also building an infrastructure for modern digital communications to drive business development, growth and increased brand visibility.
Before moving into the technology sector, Renee worked in healthcare as one of the first team members for a service excellence program in Stanford Hospital’s Emergency Department. She later worked as a lead for Stanford’s Aging Adult Services’ Philips Lifeline program where she managed operations and advocated for older adults to live independently at home with the support of wearable technology. Renee is widely known online for her leadership and expertise in the field of hospice and palliative care. She has served on the board of directors for the Partnership for Children, the Children's Hospice and Palliative Care Coalition, the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation, the Executive Committee for National Healthcare Decisions Day and as an advisor to Pallimed. Her foray into digital media resulted from her dedication to advocating for broader awareness for early palliative care and access to quality information online. In 2010 she co-founded the #hapc tweetchat, an online public discussion of important issues in the field which is still active today, has garnered thousands of participants and generated over 1 billion impressions online. Renee has also been a legislative advocate for both national and California state policies related to hospice and palliative medicine since 2009.
Not currently accepting clients, Renee is also the founder of a public engagement communications firm, BeMoRe which has served both national healthcare organizations and Silicon Valley startups. With experience training hundreds of people on digital media communications, Renee is passionate about empowering people to build a voice online whether they are an entrepreneur, an executive, an individual looking to expand their career options or marketers that are looking to establish their brand’s online presence.
Renee lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and children where you'll occasionally find her teaching people to swim on the pool deck.