As Country Manager for Amazon Business Canada, Kevin Grimes defines the strategy and executes tactical plans to help Canadian businesses and Public Sector organizations reinvent the way they procure supplies. Kevin leads a team of Sales Managers and their Strategic, Enterprise, and SMB Account Executives, as well as the Costa Rica-based Business Development team. After helping AB Canada reach $1B in 2024 as the Head of Public Sector Sales, Kevin is thrilled to be the new Country Manager where he will continue to innovate on behalf of business customers in Canada. Amazon Business is re-inventing the way businesses shop in Canada. Launched in October of 2019, Amazon Business Canada is applying the same entrepreneurial and innovative approach that delivered the Amazon.ca shopping experience, new technologies, products (like our Amazon Echo, Kindle e-readers, and tablets), and enterprise services like AWS. With our drive to reinvent on behalf of business customers, we are focused on building Amazon Business into the largest and most innovative Business-to-Business (B2B) marketplace in the world. Our customers include individual professionals, small businesses to large institutions (and everything in between) from every industry vertical. Kevin has been with Amazon for over 11 years and was a founding member of the Amazon Business Go-To-Market team in the US. Kevin holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Western Washington University, and recently moved his family of five from the Seattle area to Toronto. He is actively engaged in coaching youth sports and enjoys cooking and getting outdoors with his children and golden retriever as much as possible.