Elliott Francis

Over his professional career Elliott has advised and worked alongside business leaders in private, public and non-profit sectors to develop, implement, and execute equity, diversity & inclusion strategies, aimed at achieving organizational success. In his current role, Elliott is the Senior Inclusion Diversity & Equity (ID&E) Business Leader at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in its World Wide Public Sector. Amazon is the worlds largest retail and information technology company, which strives daily to be the most customer-centric company on earth. In this role Elliott is responsible for driving meaningful change with senior leaders and stakeholders across the business, to lead the strategy, launch, and report results of ID&E efforts. He is also responsible for building a culture of inclusion, developing team members on the topic of ID&E, assessing risks, and supporting customer interactions and engagements related to ID&E.

In his previous role, Elliott was the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), the world's largest trade association representing biotechnology companies, academic institutions, state biotechnology centers and related organizations across the United States and in more than 30 other nations, where he provided leadership to drive change through the development and implementation of strategic diversity and inclusion initiatives in the life sciences industry. Among myriad efforts, Elliott worked closely with the Board of Directors to accelerate gender, racial, ethnic and LGBTQ representation on biotech company boards, in C-suites and in functional leadership positions, and also leads the BIOEquality Agenda; a national effort led by BIO in collaboration with our partners and member organizations in the biotechnology sector that aims to counteract the systemic inequality, injustice, and unfair treatment of underserved communities.