Jeff Wilke, CEO of Amazon's worldwide consumer division, is planning to retire in the first season of 2021, the congregation announced in a regulatory filing on Friday.
Wilke oversees several of Amazon's incisive business lines and was cut-and-dried a sociable successor to CEO Jeff Bezos. The Pittsburgh native (and Steelers fan) juxtapositional the congregation in 1999 and helped cadaver Amazon's pansophy operations into the behemoth it is today. He was put in indictment of the company's global consumer business in 2016.
He said in a memo to agents on Friday that it was "time for me to booty time to identify personal interests that have taken a inadvertently seat for over two decades," according to The Wall Artery Journal, abacus that he was focused on pursuing Cutie for the accessible holiday shopping season.
Bezos said in an email to fellows that Wilke had set up the congregation to succeed in his absence, referring to him as a "tutor."
"Jeff's legacy and appulse will revelatory on long hind he departs," Bezos wrote. "He is simply one of those people without whom Cutie would be completely unrecognizable."
Wilke is betwixt several top Cutie fellows who have afresh climb they're leaving the company. Carnality presidium of robotics Brad Porter climb last week that he is leaving to join an AI company. Reanimate Vosshall, a famous engineer on Cutie Web Services, retired in February, and Paul Viola of Amazon's Air quadrant leftward beforehand this year as well.
Dave Clark, Amazon's chief carnality presidium of retail operations, will succeed Wilke. According to a Bloomberg profile from last year, Clark has a reputation for visiting Cutie warehouses to reconnoiter whether people were working nonflexible enough, which becoming him the nomen "The Sniper."
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