Aaron Osmond is the Chief Executive Officer of Knowledge Pillars Education.
He brings over 25 years of executive leadership experience in the IT Training and Certification industry.
Before joining Knowledge Pillars, Aaron was an executive education leader at Amazon Web Services or AWS (2020-2024). Aaron served as the Head of Strategic Industries Team and the Global Digital Learning Sales Leader within the Training and Certification division. Prior to that role he served as the US Leader of the Education to Workforce team in the Global Public Sector division of AWS, where he consulted with state government leaders to help them implement workforce readiness programs to prepare students for future cloud careers.
Prior to AWS, Aaron served as the Vice President and General Manager of the Certiport division of Pearson Assessments, from 2012 to 2020, where he led their Global Career and Technical Education business unit. From 1991 to 2012, Aaron built his career in key leadership roles in the IT Training and Certification industry at companies such as WordPerfect, Novell, and Microsoft. During this time Aaron also served for 5 years as CEO of Wealth Rock, a large financial education company based in Utah.
From March 2011 until December 2015, Aaron served his local community as a Utah State Senator representing the South Jordan, Herriman, and West Jordan areas. During his term, he served on the Public Education Appropriations Committees, the Higher Education Appropriations Committee, and as Chair of the Public Education Standing Committee, and then as Chair of the Economic Development & Workforce Committee.
Between 2017-2020, Aaron also served as the Vice-Chair of the Utah Board of Higher Education, where he worked with other board members to provide oversight and governance of the state’s 16 higher education institutions.
Aaron is a passionate advocate of the importance of access to technical education programs for students in both our public and higher education systems globally.
