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BREAKING: Jeff Bezos will step down as CEO of Amazon and transition to the role of executive chairman. Andy Jassy will succeed him in the third quarter of 2021
In addition, Jeff Wilke, Amazon’s CEO of worldwide consumer business and a top lieutenant to Jeff Bezos, is stepping down next year, Amazon announced in an SEC filing Friday.
Wilke, 53, will retire early in the first quarter of 2021, the regulatory filing reveals, marking an end to his 22-year tenure at the retail and tech giant. His role will be taken over by current senior vice president of retail operations, Dave Clark.
Wilke joined Amazon in 1999 as an operations manager and has led the company’s expansion in online and physical retail over the past two decades. Until his retirement announcement, Wilke was widely considered to be a potential successor for Bezos should he retire first.
“Jeff’s legacy and impact will live on long after he departs,” Bezos said of Wilke in a memo to Amazon employees on Friday. “He is simply one of those people without whom Amazon would be completely unrecognizable.”
https://observer.com/2020/08/amazon-retail-consumer-ceo-jeff-wilke-step-down/
How odd, maybe he’s stepping into a Gitmo cell soon. Get your affairs in order, Jeffy your melgomanic days are done.