Kyle Roche is the founder and CEO of Griptape, an AI startup helping companies build AI-powered applications that connect securely to their enterprise data and APIs. Griptape was part of the inaugural cohort of the AWS AI Startup Accelerator. Before Griptape, Kyle spent eight years as a General Manager at AWS where he built and managed numerous public offerings from inception to launch. He was also the Founder and CEO of 2lemetry, which was acquired by Amazon in 2015.