Teresa Carlson

Co-Founder & CEO

General Catalyst Institute

Teresa Carlson is the Co-Founder & CEO of General Catalyst Institute, leveraging her decades of leadership as a visionary technology executive to shape effective global public policy. She works in partnership with governments to enact positive change for new and emerging technologies, focusing on accelerating national resilience at a global scale in applied AI, defense, national security, energy, health, manufacturing, finance, and other sectors. 

Teresa serves on the operating committee of General Catalyst and is a veteran executive of blue-chip companies, including Amazon, where she founded and led Worldwide Public Sector and Industries for AWS, growing it into a multibillion-dollar business. She also led large global organizations at Splunk and Flexport, where she served as President and Chief Growth Officer. Earlier in her career, Teresa led the U.S. Federal Business at Microsoft, then returned where she served as a Corporate Vice President and Executive in Residence. 

She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Commure and the Public board of PagerDuty, and is a Board Observer for Re: Build, Re: Car, Cobot, and Mark43. Teresa also dedicates time to philanthropic roles as the Vice Chair of the White House Historical Association, Executive Committee Member of The Atlantic Council, Board of Trustees at the Meridian International.