Top Amazon.com Employees

Andrew Jassy holds the position of Senior Vice President at amazon.com.

Henry Brian Valentine, born November 28, 1959, is a software executive. He held roles at Intel, Microsoft, and Amazon.com.

Colin Needham, born January 26, 1967, is an English entrepreneur. He founded and leads IMDb as CEO. He has served as general manager of IMDb since Amazon bought it in 1998.

Diego Piacentini holds the position of Senior Vice President at Amazon.com.

Douglas Boake joined OpenTable in 2001 from Amazon.com. There, he was the vice president of business and corporate development. At Amazon, he managed new business opportunities and strategic partnerships. Before Amazon, Douglas founded Accept.com as vice president of business development. Amazon later acquired Accept.com. Earlier, Douglas served as senior vice president of sales and business development at PointCast Inc., overseeing sales and affiliate development, advertising sales, and advertising markets.

Jeffrey A. Wilke is a Senior Vice President at Amazon.com.

Jeffrey Blackburn is a Senior Vice President at Amazon.com.

Jeffrey Preston Bezos, born January 12, 1964, is an American technology entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. He founded, leads, and presides over Amazon.com, Inc. Bezos was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and grew up in Houston, Texas. He earned degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University in 1986. Bezos worked on Wall Street in various fields from 1986 until early 1994. He started Amazon in late 1994 during a cross-country drive from New York City to Seattle. The company began as an online bookstore and has since expanded.

Jorrit Van der Meulen is Vice President of Partner Relations at Zillow.com. Before Zillow.com, Jorrit worked at Amazon for six years in senior management roles. Jorrit ran the toy, baby, and video game businesses and recently led the launch and operations of Amazon's global DVD rental business. Prior to Amazon, Jorrit directed Business Development for Oracle Applications and worked in Sales and Marketing for Procter Gamble. Jorrit graduated from the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington and holds a Master of Business Administration.

Michelle Wilson is a Senior Vice President at Amazon.com.

Leslie Kilgore has been Netflix's chief marketing officer since 2000. Leslie brought over ten years of consumer products and e-commerce marketing experience from top brands in packaged goods and online retail. She believes success comes from offering consumers superior products and better value; this idea underpins her career. Leslie's main goal at Netflix is rapid, cost-effective subscriber acquisition. During her time there, she grew the Netflix subscriber base from under 100,000 to 6.8 million.

Marc Onetto holds the position of Senior Vice President at Amazon.com.

Owen Van Natta is the CEO of MySpace. He held roles as Chief Revenue Officer and Vice President of Operations for Facebook. He also served as Vice President of Worldwide Business and Corporate Development for Amazon.com. Most recently, Van Natta was the CEO of Playlist, Inc., an online music company.

Patrick Tufts is a computer scientist and inventor. He created Alexa Internet's collaborative filter for making related website recommendations. He also developed one of Amazon.com's most successful product recommendation systems.

Kavitark Ram Shriram, born in 1956 or 57, is an American businessman. He is a founding board member and one of the first investors in Google. Shriram previously worked as an officer at Amazon.com for Jeff Bezos. Shriram joined Amazon.com in August 1998 when Amazon bought Junglee, an online comparison shopping firm where Shriram was president. Before Junglee and Amazon, Shriram was on the Netscape executive team, joining in 1994, before any products shipped or revenue posted.

Rick Dalzell (born 1957) served as Amazon.com's Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President from 1997 until November 2007. Dalzell drove the growth of technology, software, and services during his ten years at Amazon.com. He became a corporate officer at Amazon in August 1997, named Vice President (VP) and Chief Information Officer (CIO). Amazon styled him Senior VP in October 2000 and named him Senior VP, Worldwide Architecture and Platform Software & CIO in November 2001. He retired from Amazon.com on November 16, 2007.

Shelley Reynolds is a Vice President at Amazon.com.

Tom Szkutak was Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and senior vice president at Amazon.com. Szkutak joined Amazon.com in October 2002, coming from twenty years at General Electric. On September 3, 2014, Amazon announced Szkutak would leave in June 2015 for other interests and family time. Brian Olsavsky succeeded him in late 2015. Before Amazon, Szkutak was CFO for GE Lighting. Before that, Szkutak managed GE Plastics finance operations for Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and India. He also served as executive vice president of finance.

Udi Manber (Hebrew: אודי מנבר‎) is an Israeli computer scientist. He wrote agrep and GLIMPSE. After engineering and management, he worked on medical research.

Werner Hans Peter Vogels, born October 3, 1958, is Amazon's chief technology officer and vice president. He drives technology innovation inside the company and handles wide internal and external duties.