Amazon.com Inc. has met. Adam Selipsky to become Amazon Web Services’ next chief executive, bringing back early hiring of the cloud computing unit to succeed Andy Jassy, who is set to replace Jeff Bezos when the founder of company drops later. year.
Mr. Selipsky returns to Amazon after leaving in 2016 to become CEO of the data analysis platform of Tableau Software Inc., acquired by Salesforce.com Inc. for more than $ 15 billion.
Originally one of the first vice-presidents hired in 2005 to work at Amazon Web Services, known as AWS, Mr. Selipsky worked closely with Mr. Jassy in his 11 years at Amazon and was was the chief officer who helped build out the cloud computing unit. He ran the team that built the first visual interface for AWS. By the time he left, he ran marketing, sales, support, business development, partner alliances and international expansion, a position that resembles a chief operating officer, he said in an interview with the Journal in 2019.
Mr. Selipsky is one of several officers who left Amazon to become CEOs of other companies. He and others are responsible for spreading what Mr. Bezos claims as a “gospel” throughout the physical world.
He will become CEO of AWS in the third quarter of the year, when Mr. Jassy moves up to replace Mr. Bezos as CEO of Amazon.