Dave Limp, Amazon’s SVP of units and companies, plans to retire within the coming months, as reported by The Wall Street Journal. His retirement marks the top of a greater than 13-year profession on the firm.
Amazon printed emails to employees from CEO Andy Jassy and Limp addressing the departure on its website. Jassy says that Limp will keep in his function “for the following few months” and that the corporate plans to announce a successor “within the coming weeks.”
“I stay excited and fairly optimistic in regards to the services we’re constructing in Units and Providers — we’re on the relative starting of what’s potential and what I imagine these companies will add for purchasers and the corporate,” Jassy wrote.
Limp’s group manages well-liked merchandise like Amazon’s Echo good audio system and the Alexa voice assistant. However the division has fallen on some onerous occasions just lately, with Limp saying in November that the corporate can be shedding some workers within the group.
Limp is leaving as a result of “it’s time,” he stated. “I’ve been doing a model of this job (constructing and delivery client electronics) on and off for 30+ years. I find it irresistible, however I additionally need look into the long run by a special lens. I’m not certain what that future is correct now, with the notable exception that it gained’t be within the client electronics house.”
The corporate is ready to host its subsequent fall units and companies occasion on September twentieth, as announced by Limp on his LinkedIn. In his electronic mail, Limp stated, “I will probably be round for a number of extra months and we have now loads to ship on with our fall merchandise.”
Replace August 14th, 4:47PM ET: Added context from Jassy and Limp’s emails to employees.