Amazon Hires Microsoft Product Chief Panay to Run Devices Unit
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Amazon.com Inc. lured away longtime Microsoft Corp. executive Panos Panay, to head the company’s devices and services business.
The announcement Wednesday confirms an earlier Bloomberg report, and follows Panay’s note to employees earlier this month announcing his surprise resignation from the company where he’d worked for nearly 20 years. He most recently was Microsoft’s chief product officer, overseeing Windows as well as the company’s hardware teams. Earlier, he was integral to the development of the Redmond, Washington company’s Surface computer line.