Charlie Bell is a member of Amazon’s senior leadership team and a long-term key figure in the company’s cloud business. He will leave the company in more than 23 years.
His departure, reporter information and CNBC confirmed, This is the latest change in the leadership of Amazon Web Services, as the long-term leader of the cloud division Andy Jassi takes over as CEO of Amazon.
Peter Desantis, the executive officer of Amazon Web Services, the company’s senior vice president of infrastructure and support, will replace Bell as the head of utility computing services. information Report, quote internal e-mail. Another AWS executive, Prasad Kalyanaraman, will succeed Desantis as the leader in AWS network and infrastructure services.
AWS is led by CEO Adam Selipsky, who rejoined Amazon to replace Jassy after serving as CEO of Seattle Tableau Software.
Bell joined Amazon in 1998 when Amazon acquired his company Server Technologies Group, an e-commerce trading software company he founded after leaving Oracle in 1996. According to his LinkedIn resumeIt describes his role as a leader in the “general management of AWS services, including product definition, pricing, profit and loss, software development, and service operations”.
exist Virtual appearance at industry conferences last year, Bell described his time at AWS as “14 years of pure fun.”