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President and CEO, Amazon
Andy Jassy is Amazon’s president and CEO and a member of its board. He joined the company in 1997 and founded and led Amazon Web Services before succeeding Jeff Bezos in 2021. His AI agenda spans cloud infrastructure, custom chips, foundation-model access and agents. His shareholder letters explain how Amazon connects those investments with customer demand and its wider retail and enterprise businesses.
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Andy Jassy is Amazon’s president and CEO and a member of its board. He joined the company in 1997 and founded and led Amazon Web Services before succeeding Jeff Bezos in 2021. His AI agenda spans cloud infrastructure, custom chips, foundation-model access and agents. His shareholder letters explain how Amazon connects those investments with customer demand and its wider retail and enterprise businesses.
- Organization
- Amazon
- Amazon tenure
- Joined in 1997
- Education
- Harvard AB; Harvard Business School MBA
- Focus
- AWS, AI infrastructure, custom silicon and agents
Sources checked . Selected career background and milestones.
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Selected research, leadership and career milestones, newest first.
Sets out Amazon’s next AI investment cycle
In his 2025 shareholder letter, published in 2026, Jassy discussed AI infrastructure, custom silicon and agents, explaining the relationship between customer commitments and capital investment.
Source: Andy Jassy: 2025 shareholder letter, published April 9, 2026 ↗Amazon and Anthropic announce strategic collaboration
Amazon announced an Anthropic collaboration involving AWS infrastructure, Trainium and Inferentia chips, and model access through Bedrock. Jassy described its expected benefits for enterprise customers.
Source: Amazon: strategic collaboration with Anthropic ↗Becomes Amazon president and CEO
Jassy became president and chief executive of Amazon and joined its board, moving from AWS leadership to responsibility for the company’s broader businesses.
Source: Amazon 2026 proxy statement ↗Becomes chief executive of AWS
Amazon named Jassy CEO of Amazon Web Services after his service as its senior vice president, formalizing his leadership of the cloud business.
Source: Amazon leadership biography ↗Leads AWS from its inception
Jassy founded and led Amazon Web Services from its 2006 inception, serving as senior vice president before the business later received a dedicated CEO role.
Source: Amazon 2026 proxy statement ↗Joins Amazon
Jassy joined Amazon in 1997. Before founding AWS, he held leadership assignments across the company, including roles in business-to-business and business-to-consumer operations.
Source: Amazon leadership biography ↗
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