FROM : AMAZON WEB SERVICES TO : AMAZON

WAS : CEO NOW : CEO

Andrew Jassy has been with Amazon since 1997 and been president and CEO since July 2021 , when he replaced Jeff Bezos , who became executive chairman . He led

Amazon Web Services ( AWS ) since its inception in 2003 and is said to have dreamed up , along with Bezos , the cloud computing platform we now know and which accounts for a significant chunk of the company ’ s revenue and overall valuation .

Jassy will be tasked with retaining the company ’ s ‘ day one ’ start up philosophy at what is one of the world ’ s largest companies , employing more than 1.3 million people .

He graduated from Harvard in government before doing an MBA at the Harvard Business School .