Chris Holt is the Leader, Global Healthcare for Amazon Business. Amazon Business is innovating how healthcare organizations source and purchase products to improve supply chain efficiency, simplify contract administration, and make comparison shopping easy. Healthcare organizations have access to hundreds of millions of products – everything from IT products and medical equipment to janitorial/sanitation and food service supplies. Chris Holt brings more than 25 years of global healthcare supply chain innovation to the Amazon team. He began his career in supply chain strategy consulting with Ernst & Young. He then joined UPS where he helped establish the company’s healthcare vertical. Chris has extensive international experience in healthcare having led the China business for Cardinal Health and subsequently served as CEO of Chinese medical product supplier Tiger Medical. Most recently, he led Business Ventures for Vizient, the US' largest healthcare group purchasing organization. Chris has a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California and a master’s degree in Logistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chris and his wife and their three children reside in Seattle, WA.