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/
New Amazon leader, Jassy, was recently hailed by Amazon employees as a decisive ‘shark’. It was his decision to end Amazon’s business with Parler, an unregulated social media site favored by the alt-right that was used, in part, to orchestrate the January 6 Capitol riot.
‘He’s a shark who will smell a drop of blood from 100 miles away if you’re not ready,’ one employee told Business Insider on January 31 in a profile about how he could become the next CEO.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9216343/Jeff-Bezos-stepping-Amazon-CEO.html
He targeted Parler!