Selipsky, who previously served as vice president of marketing, sales, and support for AWS in Seattle until joining Tableau in 2016, is replacing AWS founding CEO Andy Jassy, who joined in February CEO of parent company Amazon has been appointed.
Amazon has named Adam Selipsky, CEO of Tableau, as the next CEO of its cloud computing business, Amazon Web Services.
Selipsky, who previously served as vice president of marketing until joining Tableau in 2016 , Sales and Support for AWS based in Seattle, replaces AWS Founding CEO Andy Jassy.
In February, Amazon announced that Jassy would take Jeff Bezos as CEO of its parent company from the third quarter beginning in July Amazon will replace.
“I would like to announce that Adam Selipsky will be the next CEO of AWS.
“Adam is not a new face for AWS. In 2005, Adam was one of the first vice presidents we hired at AWS, heading up sales, marketing, and support for AWS (as well as a few other areas such as our AWS Platform services for a period of time) for 11 years. Adam then became CEO of Tableau in 2016 and has led Tableau for the past 4.5 years. Tableau experienced significant success during Adam’s tenure as CEO – the company’s value quadrupled in just a few years, Tableau shifted from perpetual licenses to subscription licenses through a fundamental change in its business model, and the company was ultimately acquired by Salesforce in 2019, making the largest software acquisitions in history. Following the acquisition, Adam remained CEO of Tableau and a member of Salesforce’s executive leadership team.
“Adam brings strong judgment, customer obsession, team building, demand generation, and CEO experience to an already very strong AWS executive team. And after holding such a high position at AWS for 11 years, he knows our culture and our business well.
« With revenue of $ 51 billion growing 28% year over year (these were the fourth quarter 2020 numbers we last shared publicly), it’s easy to forget that AWS is still at a very early stage Currently, less than 5% of global IT spending is in the cloud. That will change a lot in the years to come. We have a lot more to invent for our customers, and we have a very strong leadership team and group of builders to make this happen, I’m excited to see what lies ahead.
P.S. Adam will be returning to AWS on May 17th. We’ll spend the following weeks switching together before making the change sometime in the third quarter. «
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