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Deirdre Bosa joins ‘Closing Bell’ to report Andy Jassy has named Adam Selipsky as the next Amazon Web Services CEO. For access to live and exclusive video from CNBC subscribe to CNBC PRO: https://cnb.cx/2NGeIvi
Amazon has chosen to Adam Selipsky, currently CEO of Salesforce-owned data-visualization software maker Tableau, to run its Amazon Web Services division. Andy Jassy, the current head of AWS and the person chosen to replace Jeff Bezos as the head of all of Amazon, informed employees in an email on Tuesday.
Amazon rules the market for public cloud infrastructure that companies use to run internal and external applications, a modern alternative to relying on in-house servers, storage and networking equipment. In 2019 industry research company Gartner estimated that Amazon had 45% of the market, more than any other company, including Microsoft and Google. As such, Selipsky becomes the most visible person in the growing industry, perhaps second only to Jassy, who enters a bigger job when he becomes Amazon CEO in the third quarter.
Selipsky is one of the people several insiders had identified as a possible successor to Jassy. Selipsky had held a prominent position inside AWS, as vice president for sales, marketing and support, before leaving to run then-public Tableau in 2016. Salesforce bought Tableau for $15.7 billion in 2019.
The role Selipsky left at Amazon was vacant for years. Last year AWS chose executive Matt Garman, who had worked on AWS’ core EC2 virtual-computing service, to take over the position.
Selipsky was viewed as a rising star within Salesforce after the Tableau acquisition. At an event hosted by Goldman Sachs in January, the bank’s CEO David Solomon asked Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff to name something that investors aren’t fully appreciating about his company. As part of his answer, Benioff listed a few top executives.
We “have so many other CEOs in our midst like Adam Selipsky, the CEO of Tableau,” Benioff said. “Soon, we’ll have Stewart, CEO of Slack,” he added, referring to Stewart Butterfield. Selipsky has remained president and CEO of Tableau since the acquisition. Salesforce did not immediately respond to a request for comment on who will run Tableau.
Salesforce CFO Mark Hawkins responded to a question about the Tableau integration in December. He said: “It’s a best-in-class, unique asset in the world. Great leadership team, great CEO with Adam Selipsky and the management team.”
Selipsky joined Amazon in 2005, a year before the company introduced EC2 and the S3 storage service, and stayed for 11 years. Before that he had been a vice president at RealNetworks.
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