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5 unusual facts about Matt Wood


IT Leader Forum

In 2011 Dean Nelson, Senior Director, Global Foundation Services - Ebay Technical Operations addressed attendees via a video interview, and Matt Wood, Technology Evangelist for Amazon Web Services, joined the panel via video conferencing.

Matt Wood

Dr. Wood continues to be involved in next-generation sequencing, and the clinical impacts of genomics, in his role at Amazon Web Services.

With the completion of the full production platform at Sanger, in 2009 Dr. Wood joined Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing arm of Amazon.com as a Technology Evangelist, where he discussed the technical and business aspects of cloud computing to audiences around the world.

Matt Wood leads scientific and technical computing at Amazon Web Services in Seattle, Washington, where he drives programs around high performance computing, data-intensive science and big data.

The Nightingales

After several line up changes since reforming, the group line-up settled as Robert Lloyd (vocals), Alan Apperley (guitar), ex-Pram drummer Daren Garratt, "teenage guitar sensation" Matt Wood, and Stephen 'The Night' Lowe (bass).


Advance and Vanquish

It is the only release by the band to feature bassist and drummer Brian Redman and Matt Wood respectively, and the last to feature original guitarists Sunny Dhak and Bobby Froese who later went on to reform their previous band Pride Tiger.


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