- Amazon CEO Andy Jassy recently expanded his group of direct reports.
- This group now includes an exec who is leading a team working on Amazon’s most ambitious AI models.
- Jassy has added at least 8 new executives to his direct reports since becoming CEO in 2021.
Amazon recently created a new AI group that reports to CEO Andy Jassy. That team is led by Rohit Prasad, SVP and head scientist for Alexa.
As part of this move, Prasad joins a group of top executives who report directly to Jassy. Other members include retail boss Doug Herrington, cloud CEO Adam Selipsky, and chief financial officer Brian Olsavsky.
It’s a group with a lot of new faces. In his 2 years since becoming CEO, Jassy has added or replaced at least 8 executives in his top leadership team. Business Insider published a list of his direct reports in July 2021, and you can compare that to the fresh group listed below. (Jassy’s direct reports are different from the S-team, a group of more than two dozen most senior decision-makers at Amazon).
The changes reflect a rapidly evolving business environment. Generative AI has taken the industry by storm in the past year and Prasad’s rise is part of this new tech boom. There’s also been internal turmoil through massive layoffs and the departure of some of Amazon’s most tenured and powerful executives.
Some of the high profile executives that left in that span include retail CEO Dave Clark, press and policy chief Jay Carney, and entertainment lead Jeff Blackburn. Jassy promoted his long-time technical confidant James Hamilton to a direct report shortly after becoming CEO, while Mike Hopkins, SVP of Amazon Studios and Videos, rejoined the group following Blackburn’s exit last year.
Eric Remling, VP of global specialty fulfillment, is the newest technical advisor, also known as the “shadow” for following the CEO to every meeting as a quasi-chief of staff.
Here are the 16 executives reporting directly to Jassy:
- Adam Selipsky, CEO, AWS
- Beth Galetti, SVP, People Experience and Tech
- Brian Olsavsky, SVP & CFO
- Dave Limp, SVP, Amazon Devices and Services
- David Zapolsky, SVP & General Counsel
- Doug Herrington, CEO, WW Amazon Stores
- Drew Herdener, SVP, WW Communications
- Eric Rimling, VP, Technical Advisor
- James Hamilton, SVP, Distinguished Engineer
- Mike Hopkins, SVP, Amazon Video and Studios
- Paul Kotas, SVP, Ads, IMDb, Grand Challenge
- Peter Krawiec, SVP, WW Corporate Development
- Rohit Prasad, SVP, Head Scientist, Alexa
- Stacey Pistole, Executive Business Partner
- Steve Boom, VP, Audio, Twitch and Games, WW Amazon Music
- Steve Schmidt, Chief Security Officer
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