After three years heading up the world’s biggest public cloud company, Adam Selipsky is stepping down to be replaced by long-time Amazon staffer Matt Garman
Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Adam Selipsky is stepping down after three years leading the company, and will be replaced as the public cloud giant’s leader from 3 June 2024 by long-time Amazon staffer Matt Garman.
The upcoming change to the company’s executive leadership team was confirmed in a staff email, authored by Amazon.com and former AWS chief Andy Jassy. In it, he revealed Selipsky’s time as CEO was always intended to be relatively short-lived.
“Adam Selipsky was one of the first [vice-presidents] we hired in AWS back in 2005, and spent 11 years excellently leading AWS sales, marketing and support, before leaving to become the CEO of Tableau,” he said.
“I’ve always had a lot of respect for Adam, and we met several times to discuss the possibility of coming back to lead AWS,” said Jassy. “In those conversations, we agreed that if he accepted the role, he’d likely do it for a few years, and that one of the things he’d focus on during that time was helping prepare the next generation of leadership.”
Selipsky was announced as Jassy’s successor in March 2021, and when he joined AWS, the company was a verified $51bn revenue operation. When he departs next month, Jassy confirmed Selipsky will be stepping away at a time when AWS’s revenue has doubled to $100bn under his leadership.
“I’d like to thank Adam for everything he’s done to lead AWS Over the past three years,” said Jassy. “He took over in the middle of the pandemic, which presented a wide array of leadership and business challenges.
“Under his direction, the team made the right long-term decision to help customers become more efficient in their spend, even if it meant less short-term revenue for AWS.”
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