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Who is Andy Jassy? The man who will replace billionaire Jeff Bezos as Amazon CEO
Notably, Bezos is the biggest shareholder of Amazon and he would continue to wield significant influence over the e-commerce major.
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Updated: Jul 5, 2021, 09:15 AM IST
World’s richest person Jeff Bezos will step down as Amazon CEO today (Monday, July 5), 27 years after he set-up the e-commerce giant. Bezos, 57, has revealed that he will now expand his private space exploration firm, philanthropy and other endeavours. Andy Jassy, who joined Amazon in 1997 as a marketing manager, will take over the charge of Amazon from today.
Who is Andy Jassy?
Meet Andy Jassy, the man who takes over as Amazon’s new boss
Andy Jassy, former head of Amazon Web Services (AWS), takes charge of Amazon.com s operations from Monday. The 53-year-old replaces Jeff Bezos as the CEO of the world s largest e-commerce firm. Here is all you need to know.
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Amazon s new CEO Andy Jassy. (Photo: Reuters)
The former head of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Andy Jassy officially took over as the CEO of Amazon.com after the world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos, stepped down as the e-commerce giant’s boss on Monday.
Jassy, 53, takes over proceedings from Bezos who will remain Amazon s executive chairman and the company s biggest shareholder. It marks the end of an era for the man who started Amazon from a garage in 1994 and took it to unimaginable heights over the years.
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Jeff Bezos makes July 5 as official date of his leaving Amazon CEO job, Andy Jassy is new boss
Bezos wrote a letter to his employees in February informing them about his decision to step down as the CEO.
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Amazon CEO and co-founder Jeff Bezos will formally step down as the Chief Executive Officer of the e-commerce company on July 5.
Bezos will now take over as the executive chairman of the company in the third quarter of this year.
Bezos will be replaced by the head of Amazons cloud division Amazon Web Services (AWS) Andy Jassy.