Biography

Mr Dipen Mehta is the Head of Digital Innovation - APAC, based out of Singapore for Amazon Web Services (AWS) - a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc. In this role Dipen is responsible for initiatives that help customers drive top line growth through leveraging emerging technologies and trends.

Dipen has spent the last 10 years in Asia, most recently joining from Standard Chartered Bank where he led their digital disruption team and co-founded their innovation lab. Prior to that Dipen led the mobility practice at Accenture Digital where he focused on helping customers in the region embark on their digital transformation. Over the course of his 20+ year career, Dipen has held various leadership roles in multi-national enterprises and has been an avid entrepreneur, advisor and investor in numerous startups across the US and Asia Pacific.

Dipen holds a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) and a Masters of Business Administration (Finance & Entrepreneurship) from NYU Stern School of Business.

Building a Culture of Innovation

Innovation is creativity with execution. It requires thinking big as well as the ability to deliver on an idea. At Amazon, innovation is in our DNA. Our successful leaders think big, execute, and have a sincere optimism about innovation – whether innovating to new opportunities and lower costs for customers or innovating our way out of a challenge. If these innovations are done well, they are great for customers – resulting in franchises like our retail business, marketplace business and even AWS. This approach fits Amazon well – we’re entrepreneurs at heart, we love to build and we look forward to adding to these franchises over time. We’d like to share the unique culture Amazon has fostered and our inspired mechanism for facilitating innovation initiatives within the company. This mechanism, known as Working Backwards, is a process that ensures we develop ideas which are big and compelling enough to customers that we are willing to invest in them.