# Walter Rogers

> Walter Rogers is the CEO of MontyCloud, a Redmond-based cloud operations platform that uses agentic AI to let IT teams manage AWS without writing scripts. Born in Rome, raised in Houston, and now based in Austin, he studied Italian and Economics at UT Austin before building and selling three software companies, two of them to VMware. He remains Chairman of Baker Communications, the sales-training firm he has run since 2003, and joined MontyCloud as CEO in April 2022.

- **Role:** Chief Executive Officer at MontyCloud
- **Organizations:** MontyCloud, Baker Communications, CloudChomp, Asset Optimization Group, VerticalNet, CertiSource
- **From:** Rome, Italy
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Italian and Economics, The University of Texas at Austin
- **Known for:** Built and sold three software companies, two acquired by VMware, Grew CloudChomp from zero to 1,100+ customers in five years in partnership with AWS, Trained more than 30,000 AWS sellers worldwide

## Career timeline

- **1997** — CEO of CertiSource, a software development company (through 1999)
- **1999** — Vice President and General Manager at VerticalNet (through 2001)
- **2001** — Co-founded Asset Optimization Group, a server consolidation software firm
- **2003** — Asset Optimization Group acquired by VMware; became Chairman of Baker Communications
- **2016** — Founded and chaired CloudChomp, a cloud cost and migration-assessment platform
- **2021** — CloudChomp technology and team acquired by VMware
- **2022** — Appointed CEO of MontyCloud in April

## Achievements

- Built and sold three software companies, two acquired by VMware
- Grew CloudChomp from zero to 1,100+ customers in five years in partnership with AWS
- Trained more than 30,000 AWS sellers worldwide
- Ran Baker Communications through the pandemic with no layoffs while competitors lost up to 30% of revenue
- Pioneered a data-driven sales-readiness approach recognized by Forrester in 2020
- Developed a predictive hiring model with 91% validity using 170+ attributes across a 2.2M-seller database
- Interviewed on 100+ radio shows affiliated with NPR, CNN, CBS, and ABC

## Latest updates

- **2022-04** — Named CEO of MontyCloud, taking over day-to-day leadership of the cloud operations platform.
- **2026-01** — MontyCloud reported a Series B funding stage as it expands its agentic-AI CloudOps platform.

## Links

- Website: https://montycloud.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/walterrogers
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/montycloudinc

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Last updated: 2026-07-07