Amazon Web Services boss Adam Selipsky is packing up his office after a three-year stint at the helm of the world’s top cloud firm.
Selipsky been with AWS for nearly a decade and a half, but now he’s off and Matt Garman’s stepping up to the plate as the new CEO.
Garman has been the senior VP for AWS’s sales, marketing, and global services, and now he’s taking charge of the $100 billion cloud and AI heavyweight.
Selipsky said that running AWS was no small feat, and he was happy with everything that happened.
He’s planning to hang up his CEO hat and keys to the drinks cabinet on the 3 June.
“I always had this thought that there might be a new adventure waiting for me down the line, but I didn’t want to get sidetracked from our collective mission,” the AWS CEO remarked. “Looking at how solid the business and the leadership squad are, it feels like the right time for me to step aside, spend some quality time with the family, have a bit of a breather, and mull over what’s next.”
Selipsky got the top job at AWS back in 2021, taking over after Andy Jassy got bumped up to run the whole Amazon show. In his time as CEO, Selipsky’s been a driving force behind boosting sales to $100 billion a year and sparking some serious innovation, especially in AI.
He said that he was grateful for the mountains of knowledge he had learned about tech, leading the charge, shaping the organisation, and the culture at Amazon.
He was one of the original vice presidents hired by AWS in 2005, leading the charge on AWS’s sales, marketing, and support for 11 years before he took the reins at Tableau. In 2021, he decided to come back to AWS as the chief.
Matt Garman joined AWS in 2006 as a project manager for software development for AWS EC2.
He worked his way up the ranks at AWS for 17 years, including vice president of AWS Compute Services, then was appointed SVP of AWS sales, marketing and global services in 2020.
