Amazon announced today that Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon’s cloud computing business, will step down from his role next month. Matt Garman, the current senior vice president of sales and marketing at Amazon Web Services, will take over as Selipsky’s successor, CNBC reported, citing a statement from Amazon.
According to an email from Amazon CEO Andy Jass, Selipsky is stepping down, effective June 3. Matt Garman, SVP of AWS sales, marketing, and global services at Amazon, will replace Selipsky as CEO.
Adam Selipsky joined AWS as one of the company’s earliest VPs in 2005. He spent 11 years skillfully overseeing AWS Sales, Marketing, and Support before moving on to become the CEO of Tableau. I’ve always held Adam in high regard, and we had numerous discussions about the prospect of him returning to lead AWS. During those talks, we both agreed that if he took on the role, it would likely be for a few years, with a focus on grooming the next wave of leaders.
“We were fortunate that Adam agreed to step in and lead AWS, and has deftly led the business, while also developing his leadership team. Adam is now going to move onto his next challenge (after taking a well-deserved respite), and Matt Garman will become CEO of AWS, effective June 3rd,” Jass said.
Launched 17 years ago, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 165 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual, and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 69 Availability Zones (AZs) within 22 geographic regions.
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