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Andy Jassy
Andrew R. Jassy (born January 13, 1968) is an American business executive who is the president and chief executive officer of Amazon since July 2021, succeeding founder Jeff Bezos, who remains executive chairman. Jassy was SVP and CEO of Amazon Web Services from 2003 to 2021.
Jassy is the son of Margery and Everett L. Jassy of Scarsdale, New York. Of Jewish Hungarian ancestry, his father was a senior partner in the corporate law firm Dewey Ballantine in New York City, and chairman of the firm's management committee. Jassy grew up in Scarsdale, and attended Scarsdale High School, where he played varsity soccer and tennis.
Jassy graduated cum laude from Harvard College in government, where he was advertising manager of The Harvard Crimson. He later earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. In 1989, he wrote in The Crimson that the newspaper should continue to publish advertisements from Eastern Air Lines, despite an ongoing labor dispute there.
Jassy worked for five years after graduation and before entering his MBA program, as a project manager for a collectibles company, MBI, and then he and an MBI colleague started a company and closed it down.
Jassy joined Amazon as a marketing manager in 1997. In 2003, he and Jeff Bezos came up with the idea to create the cloud computing platform that became known as Amazon Web Services, which launched in 2006. Jassy headed it and its team of 57 people.
In 2016, Jassy was promoted from senior vice president to chief executive officer of Amazon Web Services (AWS). That year Jassy was paid $36.6 million.
In 2017, he was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Jassy was a member of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) that was established in 2018 and issued its final report in March 2021.
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Andy Jassy
Andrew R. Jassy (born January 13, 1968) is an American business executive who is the president and chief executive officer of Amazon since July 2021, succeeding founder Jeff Bezos, who remains executive chairman. Jassy was SVP and CEO of Amazon Web Services from 2003 to 2021.
Jassy is the son of Margery and Everett L. Jassy of Scarsdale, New York. Of Jewish Hungarian ancestry, his father was a senior partner in the corporate law firm Dewey Ballantine in New York City, and chairman of the firm's management committee. Jassy grew up in Scarsdale, and attended Scarsdale High School, where he played varsity soccer and tennis.
Jassy graduated cum laude from Harvard College in government, where he was advertising manager of The Harvard Crimson. He later earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. In 1989, he wrote in The Crimson that the newspaper should continue to publish advertisements from Eastern Air Lines, despite an ongoing labor dispute there.
Jassy worked for five years after graduation and before entering his MBA program, as a project manager for a collectibles company, MBI, and then he and an MBI colleague started a company and closed it down.
Jassy joined Amazon as a marketing manager in 1997. In 2003, he and Jeff Bezos came up with the idea to create the cloud computing platform that became known as Amazon Web Services, which launched in 2006. Jassy headed it and its team of 57 people.
In 2016, Jassy was promoted from senior vice president to chief executive officer of Amazon Web Services (AWS). That year Jassy was paid $36.6 million.
In 2017, he was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Jassy was a member of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) that was established in 2018 and issued its final report in March 2021.