Amazon Names Selipsky to Lead Cloud After Jassy Becomes CEO

  • Adam Selipsky, an AWS veteran, has led Tableau since 2016
  • Bezos is to become executive chairman of Amazon this year
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Amazon.com Inc. is bringing a former executive back to run its cloud computing division, poaching a top leader from Salesforce.com Inc.

Adam Selipsky will lead Amazon Web Services, the company told employees in an email on Tuesday, replacing Andy Jassy, who is set to succeed Jeff Bezos as Amazon’s chief executive officer. Bezos will take the role of executive chairman in the third quarter of this year.

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