Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon Web Services, is stepping down after three years at the head of the company.
Selipsky will leave the company on 3rd June and will be succeeded by Matt Garman, a senior vice president who has overseen sales and marketing at AWS.
Garman started at AWS as an MBA intern during the summer of 2005 and joined the company full-time in 2006 as one of the first AWS product managers.
In a blog post, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said Selipsky leaves AWS “in a strong position, having reached a $100 billion annual revenue run rate this past quarter, with YoY revenue accelerating again.”
Jassy described Garman as “Very customer focused, a terrific product leader, inventive, a clever problem-solver, right a lot, has high standards and meaningful bias for action, and in the 18 years he’s been in AWS, he’s been one of the better learners I’ve encountered.
“Matt knows our customers and business as well as anybody in the world, and has senior leadership experience on both the product and demand generation sides. I’m excited to see Matt and his outstanding AWS leadership team continue to invent our future—it’s still such early days in AWS.”
