Amazon appoints Adam Selipsky as AWS new CEO

Amazon has recently announced former Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky to lead its cloud computing unit, AWS as the new CEO.  Andy Jassy, who is set to lead Amazon as group CEO has announced the appointment of Adam via an email to its employees.

Adam was one of the first VPs hired in AWS and ran AWS’s Sales, Marketing, and Support for 11 years. Later, Adam became the CEO of Tableau in 2016 and ran Tableau for the last 4.5 years, Amazon said.

Jassy in his letter also highlighted his contribution to tableau and said, "Tableau experienced significant success during Adam’s time as CEO—the value of the company quadrupled in just a few years, Tableau transitioned through a fundamental business model change from perpetual licenses to subscription licensing, and the company was eventually acquired by Salesforce in 2019 in one of the largest software acquisitions in history. Following the acquisition, Adam remained the CEO of Tableau and was a member of Salesforce’s Executive Leadership Team."

During his AWS days, he was a member of Amazon's 18-person senior operating committee (S-Team) and took AWS from pre-revenue to $13B+ revenue business to 50%/yr growth with the team size from fewer than 10 to thousands.

Adam Selipsky brings strong judgment, customer obsession, team building, demand generation, and CEO experience to an already very strong AWS leadership team. And, having been in such a senior role at AWS for 11 years, he knows our culture and business well, Amazon said.

Adam Selipsky will join AWS on May 17, 2021.