People: Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O)
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Summary
| Name | Age | Since | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
Jeffrey Bezos |
49 | 2000 | Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer |
Thomas Szkutak |
52 | 2002 | Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President |
Jeffrey Blackburn |
43 | 2006 | Senior Vice President - Business Development |
Andrew Jassy |
45 | 2006 | Senior Vice President - Web Services |
Diego Piacentini |
52 | 2012 | Senior Vice President - International Consumer Business |
H. Brian Valentine |
53 | 2006 | Senior Vice President - Ecommerce Platform |
Jeffrey Wilke |
46 | 2012 | Senior Vice President - Consumer Business |
Shelley Reynolds |
48 | 2007 | Vice President, Worldwide Controller, Principal Accounting Officer |
David Zapolsky |
49 | 2012 | Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary |
Tom Alberg |
73 | 2011 | Lead Independent Director |
John Brown |
72 | 2004 | Independent Director |
William Gordon |
63 | 2003 | Independent Director |
Jamie Gorelick |
62 | 2012 | Independent Director |
Alain Monie |
62 | 2008 | Independent Director |
Jonathan Rubinstein |
56 | 2010 | Independent Director |
Thomas Ryder |
68 | 2011 | Independent Director |
Patricia Stonesifer |
56 | 1997 | Independent Director |
Biographies
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
Jeffrey Bezos |
Mr. Jeffrey P. Bezos is Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer of Amazon.com Inc. Mr. Bezos has been Chairman of the Board of Amazon.com since founding it in 1994 and Chief Executive Officer since May 1996. Mr. Bezos served as President of the Company from founding until June 1999 and again from October 2000 to the present. |
Thomas Szkutak |
Mr. Thomas J. Szkutak is Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President of Amazon.com Inc. After more than 20 years with GE, Mr. Szkutak joined Amazon.com. As CFO he oversees the company's overall financial activities, including controllership, tax, treasury, analysis, investor relations, internal audit and financial operations. Before joining Amazon.com, Mr. Szkutak served as CFO for GE Lighting. Prior to being named CFO of GE Lighting, Szkutak oversaw the GE Plastics finance operations for Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India. In addition, he was executive vice president of finance for GE Investments in Stamford, Connecticut. He received a BS in finance from Boston University, where he graduated magna cum laude. |
Jeffrey Blackburn |
Mr. Jeffrey M. Blackburn is Senior Vice President - Business Development of Amazon.com Inc. From June 2004 to April 2006, he was Vice President, Business Development. He was Vice President, European Customer Service and from November 2002 to July 2003, he was Vice President, Operations Integration. Prior to joining Amazon.com in 1998, Mr. Blackburn was Assistant Vice President at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell. He holds a BA from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business (professional school of Stanford University). |
Andrew Jassy |
Mr. Andrew R. Jassy is Senior Vice President - Web Services of Amazon.com Inc. From January 2005 to April 2006, he was Vice President, Web Services, from August 2003 to January 2005, he was Vice President, Associates and Web Services, and, from November 2002 to August 2003, he was Vice President and Technical Assistant. Prior to joining Amazon.com in 1997, Mr. Jassy was the founder and manager of a marketing consulting company. Mr. Jassy is a graduate from Harvard College and holds a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School. |
Diego Piacentini |
Mr. Diego Piacentini is Senior Vice President - International Consumer Business of Amazon.com Inc. He served as Senior Vice President, International Retail, from January 2007 until February 2012. From November 2001 to December 2006, Mr. Piacentini served as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Retail and Marketing. From February 2000 until November 2001, he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager, International. Prior to joining Amazon.com, Piacentini was vice president and general manager of Apple Computer Europe, where he headed operations for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Mr. Piacentini joined Apple Computer in 1987. He held several financial management positions both in Apple Italy and at a European level through 1993. Piacentini served as sales director for Apple Italy in 1994 and was promoted to the post of general manager for Apple Italy in May 1995. Mr. Piacentini holds a degree in economics from Bocconi University of Milan. An Italian national, he has traveled and worked across Europe, Asia and North America. |
H. Brian Valentine |
Mr. H. Brian Valentine is Senior Vice President - Ecommerce Platform of Amazon.com Inc. Prior to joining Amazon.com, Mr. Valentine held various positions with Microsoft Corporation, including Senior Vice President, Windows Core Operating System Division, from January 2004 to September 2006 and Senior Vice President, Windows, from December 1999 to January 2004. Prior to joining Microsoft, Mr. Valentine was a Software Engineer at Intel Corporation from 1983 to 1987. Mr. Valentine received a B.S. in Computer Science from Eastern Washington University. |
Jeffrey Wilke |
Mr. Jeffrey A. Wilke is Senior Vice President - Consumer Business of Amazon.com Inc. He served as Senior Vice President, North America Retail, from January 2007 until February 2012. From January 2002 to December 2006, he was Senior Vice President, Worldwide Operations. He joined Amazon.com as Vice President and General Manager, Operations in September, 1999. He left AlliedSignal (now Honeywell) where he was Vice-President and General Manager, Pharmaceutical Fine Chemicals. Jeff spent the preceding five years of operations leadership assignments in the chemical, polymer, and electronics industries. He graduate work (MBA and MS in Chemical Engineering) at MIT's Leaders For Manufacturing program where he focused on Total Quality and Process Improvement techniques. He also holds a BSE degree in Chemical Engineering, Summa Cum Laude, from Princeton University. |
Shelley Reynolds |
Ms. Shelley L. Reynolds is Vice President - Worldwide Controller, Principal Accounting Officer of Amazon.com Inc., since April 2007. From February 2006 to April 2007, she was Vice President, Finance and Controller. Prior to joining Amazon.com, Ms. Reynolds was a partner at Deloitte & Touche LLP since 1998. |
David Zapolsky |
Mr. David A. Zapolsky is Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary of Amazon.com Inc. He has served as Vice President and Associate General Counsel for Litigation and Regulatory matters from April 2002 until September 2012. |
Tom Alberg |
Mr. Tom A. Alberg is Lead Independent Director of Amazon.com Inc. Mr. Alberg has been a managing director of Madrona Venture Group, LLC, a venture capital firm, since September 1999, and a principal in Madrona Investment Group, LLC, a private investment firm, since January 1996. |
John Brown |
Dr. John Seely Brown is Independent Director of Amazon.com Inc. Mr. Brown has served as a Visiting Scholar and Advisor to the Provost at the University of Southern California since 1996 and as Independent Co-Chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge since 2006. He was the Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation until April 2002, and director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) until June 2000. Mr. Brown has served as a director of Corning Incorporated since February 1996, and of Varian Medical Systems, Inc. since February 1998. Mr. Brown was a director of Polycom, Inc. from August 1999 through August 2007. |
William Gordon |
Mr. William B. Gordon is Independent Director of Amazon.com Inc. Mr. Gordon has been a partner of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a venture capital firm, since June 2008. Mr. Gordon is a co-founder of Electronic Arts, Inc., a software and gaming company, where he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Creative Officer from March 1998 to May 2008. Mr. Gordon has served as a director of Zynga Inc. since July 2008. |
Jamie Gorelick |
Ms. Jamie S. Gorelick is Independent Director of Amazon.com Inc. Ms. Gorelick has been a partner with the law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP since July 2003 and previously was Deputy Attorney General of the United States. Ms. Gorelick has been a director of United Technologies Corporation since February 2000 and was a director of Schlumberger Limited from April 2002 to June 2010. |
Alain Monie |
Mr. Alain Monie is Independent Director of Amazon.com Inc. Mr. Monié has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Ingram Micro Inc., technology distributor, since January 2012, and was its President and Chief Operating Officer from November 2011 to January 2012. He was elected to Ingram Micro Inc.’s board of directors in November 2011. Mr. Monié was CEO of APRIL Management Pte. Ltd., a multinational industrial company based in Singapore, from August 2010 through October 2011. Before serving at APRIL Management Pte. Ltd., Mr. Monié was President and Chief Operating Officer of Ingram Micro Inc. from August 2007 to August 2010. |
Jonathan Rubinstein |
Mr. Jonathan J. Rubinstein is Independent Director of Amazon.com Inc. Mr. Rubinstein was Senior Vice President, Product Innovation, for the Personal Systems Group at the Hewlett-Packard Company (“HP”), a multinational information technology company, from July 2011 through January 2012, and served as Senior Vice President and General Manager, Palm Global Business Unit, at HP from July 2010 through July 2011. Mr. Rubinstein was Chief Executive Officer and President of Palm, Inc., a smartphone manufacturer, from June 2009 until its acquisition by HP in July 2010, and Chairman of the Board of Palm, Inc. from October 2007 through the acquisition. |
Thomas Ryder |
Mr. Thomas O. Ryder is Independent Director of Amazon.com Inc. Mr. Ryder was Chairman of the Reader’s Digest Association, Inc. from April 1998 to December 2006, and was Chief Executive Officer from April 1998 to December 2005. From 1984 to 1998, Mr. Ryder worked in several roles at American Express, including as President of American Express Travel Related Services International. Mr. Ryder has been a director of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. since April 2001, a director of RPX Corporation since December 2009, and a director of Quad/Graphics, Inc. since July 2010. He was Chairman of the Board of Directors at Virgin Mobile USA, Inc. from October 2007 to November 2009. |
Patricia Stonesifer |
Ms. Patricia Q. Stonesifer is Independent Director of Amazon.com Inc. Ms. Stonesifer has served as the President and CEO of Martha’s Table, a non-profit, since April 2013. She served as Chair of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution from January 2009 to January 2012 and as Vice Chair from January 2012 to January 2013. From September 2008 to January 2012, she served as senior advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a private philanthropic organization, where she was Chief Executive Officer from January 2006 to September 2008 and President and Co-chair from June 1997 to January 2006. Since September 2009, she has also served as a private philanthropy advisor. From 1988 to 1997, she worked in many roles at Microsoft Corporation, including as a Senior Vice President of the Interactive Media Division. |
Basic Compensation
| Name | Fiscal Year Total |
|---|---|
Jeffrey Bezos |
1,681,840 |
Thomas Szkutak |
8,451,370 |
Jeffrey Blackburn |
-- |
Andrew Jassy |
11,611,700 |
Diego Piacentini |
11,819,200 |
H. Brian Valentine |
163,564 |
Jeffrey Wilke |
17,727,800 |
Shelley Reynolds |
613,432 |
David Zapolsky |
-- |
Tom Alberg |
-- |
John Brown |
-- |
William Gordon |
-- |
Jamie Gorelick |
-- |
Alain Monie |
-- |
Jonathan Rubinstein |
-- |
Thomas Ryder |
-- |
Patricia Stonesifer |
-- |
As Of 30 Dec 2012
Options Compensation
| Name | Options | Value |
|---|---|---|
Jeffrey Bezos |
0 | 0 |
Thomas Szkutak |
0 | 0 |
Jeffrey Blackburn |
0 | 0 |
Andrew Jassy |
0 | 0 |
Diego Piacentini |
831,276 | 26,614,690 |
H. Brian Valentine |
0 | 0 |
Jeffrey Wilke |
1,281,917 | 15,773,165 |
Shelley Reynolds |
0 | 0 |
David Zapolsky |
0 | 0 |
Tom Alberg |
0 | 0 |
John Brown |
0 | 0 |
William Gordon |
0 | 0 |
Jamie Gorelick |
0 | 0 |
Alain Monie |
0 | 0 |
Jonathan Rubinstein |
0 | 0 |
Thomas Ryder |
0 | 0 |
Patricia Stonesifer |
0 | 0 |
| Name | Shares Traded | Price |
|---|---|---|
BROWN JOHN SEELY |
8,000 | $256.10 |
GORDON WILLIAM BINGHAM |
1,667 | $0.00 |
JASSY ANDREW R |
4,882 | $265.86 |
SZKUTAK THOMAS J |
7,500 | $0.00 |
VALENTINE HENRY BRIAN |
1,720 | $264.95 |
RYDER THOMAS O |
500 | $264.93 |
PIACENTINI DIEGO |
1,229 | $267.16 |
RYDER THOMAS O |
100 | $263.96 |
SZKUTAK THOMAS J |
479 | $265.38 |
PIACENTINI DIEGO |
200 | $268.48 |
BLACKBURN JEFFREY M |
7,750 | $0.00 |
RYDER THOMAS O |
400 | $266.15 |
JASSY ANDREW R |
7,750 | $0.00 |
BEZOS JEFFREY P |
518 | $268.74 |
BEZOS JEFFREY P |
2,036 | $0.00 |
ZAPOLSKY DAVID |
1,518 | $0.00 |
ZAPOLSKY DAVID |
603 | $0.00 |
SZKUTAK THOMAS J |
1,621 | $266.40 |
REYNOLDS SHELLEY L |
1,868 | $267.55 |
WILKE JEFFREY A |
10,000 | $0.00 |
BEZOS JEFFREY P |
56,490 | $267.01 |
SZKUTAK THOMAS J |
700 | $267.24 |
BLACKBURN JEFFREY M |
3,875 | $267.55 |
PIACENTINI DIEGO |
3,612 | $266.38 |
WILKE JEFFREY A |
1,200 | $264.06 |

