Meet Amazon’s ‘S Team’
Amazon’s senior leadership team, or S Team for short, sets goals and strategy, shapes company culture, and handles crises. It expanded in late 2019 and now includes 22 people, counting Jeff Bezos, though not all of them report to the Amazon founder and CEO. Click on the attributes below to sort the S Team members by age, Amazon tenure (the average for the group is a little less than 16 years) and gender, and to see other biographical details such as title and education. Undergraduate university and major are listed, followed by graduate institutions and additional degrees. It is up to date as of Feb. 2, 2020. See all of The Seattle Times’ Amazon coverage here.
Pick a category to sort the profiles of the 'S Team'
Years at Amazon
0-4
5-9
10-14
15-19
20-24
25+
Years old
40-44
45-49
50-54
55-59
60-64
Gender
Female
Male
Amit Agarwal, 45
Senior VP, country manager - India
Years at Amazon
16 avg.
Education
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Computer science
Stanford University
MS, computer science
Colleen Aubrey, 47
VP, performance advertising
Years at Amazon
16 avg.
Education
Canberra University
Applied science
Sydney Institute of Technology
Macquarie University
MBA
Christine Beauchamp, 49
VP, Amazon fashion
Years at Amazon
16 avg.
Education
Princeton University
Politics
Harvard Business School
MBA
Charlie Bell, 62
Senior VP, utility computing services
Years at Amazon
16 avg.
Education
California State University, Fullerton
Management information systems
Jeff Bezos, 56
CEO
Years at Amazon
16 avg.
Education
Princeton University
Electrical engineering and computer science
Jay Carney, 54
Senior VP, corporate affairs
Years at Amazon
16 avg.
Education
Yale University
Russian and East European studies
Dave Clark, 47
Senior VP, worldwide operations
Years at Amazon
16 avg.
Education
Auburn University
Education
University of Tennessee-Knoxville
MBA
Peter DeSantis, 44
VP, global infrastructure & customer support
Years at Amazon
16 avg.
Education
Dartmouth College
Economics and computer science
Beth Galetti, 46
Senior VP, human resources
Years at Amazon
16 avg.
Education
Lehigh University
Electrical engineering
Colorado Technical University
MBA
Matthew Garman, 44
VP, Amazon Web Services compute services
Years at Amazon
16 avg.
Education
Stanford University
Industrial engineering
Stanford University
MS, industrial engineering
Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
MBA
Russ Grandinetti, 48
Senior VP, international consumer
Years at Amazon
16 avg.
Education
Princeton University
Operations research
Doug Herrington, 53
Senior VP, North America consumer
Years at Amazon
16 avg.
Education
Princeton University
Economics
Harvard Business School
MBA
Andy Jassy, 52
CEO, Amazon Web Services
Years at Amazon
16 avg.
Education
Harvard University
Harvard Business School
MBA
Paul Kotas, 59
Senior VP, Amazon advertising
Years at Amazon
16 avg.
Education
SUNY Buffalo
Engineering science
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Peter Krawiec, 47
VP, worldwide corporate development
Years at Amazon
16 avg.
Education
Trinity College, Hartford
Economics
Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
MBA
Dave Limp, 53
Senior VP, devices & services
Years at Amazon
16 avg.
Education
Vanderbilt University
Computer science and mathematics
Stanford Graduate School of Business
MS, management
Neil Lindsay, 55
VP, worldwide Prime & marketing
Years at Amazon
16 avg.
Education
Edith Cowan University
Applied science
Golden Gate University
MBA
Brian Olsavsky, 56
Senior VP, CFO
Years at Amazon
16 avg.
Education
Penn State University
Mechanical engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
MBA
Rohit Prasad, 43
VP, head scientist - Alexa
Years at Amazon
16 avg.
Education
Birla Institute of Technology
Electronics and communication engineering
Illinois Institute of Technology
MS, electrical engineering
Greater Boston Executive Program, MIT Sloan School of Management
Tom Taylor, 57
Senior VP, Alexa
Years at Amazon
16 avg.
Education
Virginia Tech
Mechanical engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MS, management and mechanical engineering
Jeff Wilke, 53
CEO, worldwide consumer
Years at Amazon
16 avg.
Education
Princeton University
Chemical engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MBA/MS, chemical engineering
David Zapolsky, 56
Senior VP, general counsel
Years at Amazon
16 avg.
Education
Columbia University
Music
UC Berkeley School of Law
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