Andy Jassy
Jassy in 2021
Born	(1968-01-13)January 13, 1968 (age 57)
Education	Harvard University (BA,MBA)
Known for	FoundingAmazon Web Services (AWS) andAmazon Music[1][2]
Title	President andCEO ofAmazon
Term	July 2021–present
Predecessor	Jeff Bezos
Board member of	Amazon
Spouse	Elana Caplan ​ (m. 1997)​ [3]
Children	2[4]
Website	Andy Jassy onTwitter
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Andrew R. Jassy (born January 13, 1968)^[5] is an American business executive who is the president and chief executive officer ofAmazon. Before being appointed byJeff Bezos and the Amazon board during the fourth quarter of 2020,^[6][7] Jassy had been the SVP and CEO ofAmazon Web Services from 2003 to 2021.^[8]

Jassy is the son of Margery and Everett L. Jassy ofScarsdale, New York.^[3] Of Jewish^[9][10]Hungarian ancestry,^[9] his father was a senior partner in thecorporate law firmDewey Ballantine in New York City, and chairman of the firm's management committee.^[3] Jassy grew up inScarsdale, and attendedScarsdale High School,^[3][11] where he played varsity soccer and tennis.^[12]

Jassy graduatedcum laude fromHarvard College in government, where he was advertising manager ofThe Harvard Crimson, before earning an MBA fromHarvard Business School. In 1989, he wrote inThe Crimson that the newspaper should continue to publish advertisements fromEastern Air Lines, despite an ongoinglabor dispute there.^[13][14][15]

Jassy worked for five years after graduation before entering his MBA program as a project manager for acollectibles company,MBI, and then he and an MBI colleague started a company and closed it down.^[14][16]

Jassy joined Amazon as a marketing manager in 1997.^[12] In 2003, he andJeff Bezos came up with the idea to create thecloud computing platform that became known asAmazon Web Services, which launched in 2006.^[17] Jassy headed it and its team of 57 people.^[1]

In 2016, Jassy was named Person of the Year by theFinancial Times.^[14] A month later, Jassy was promoted from senior vice president to chief executive officer of Amazon Web Services (AWS).^[18][15] That year Jassy was paid $36.6 million.^[19]

Jassy was a member of theNational Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) that was established in 2018 and issued its final report in March 2021.^[20][21]

In January 2021, Bezos designated Jassy his official successor as CEO;^[22] with the transition occurring on July 5, 2021.^[23] As CEO of Amazon, Jassy received a ten year pay package totaling $212.7 million. The majority of the compensation package is in stock and vests over 10 years.^[24]

As of 2024, Jassy has been emphasizing the company's focus on artificial intelligence (AI).^[25] The company announced plans to spend more than $75 billion on capital expenditures in 2025, with most of that investment directed towards AWS and generative AI.^[26]

In 1997, Jassy married Elana Rochelle Caplan, a fashion designer forEddie Bauer and graduate of thePhiladelphia College of Textiles and Science, at aLoews Hotel inSanta Monica, California.^[3] Their wedding was officiated by New York reform Rabbi James Brandt, a cousin of Elana.^[27] Both their fathers were senior partners in law firmDewey Ballantine.^[3] Jassy and Caplan have two children.^[4]

They live in theCapitol Hill neighborhood ofSeattle in a 10,000-square-foot house bought in 2009 for $3.1 million.^[2][28] In October 2020, it was reported that Jassy had bought a $6.7 million 5,500-square-foot house in Santa Monica.^[29][30][28]

He is chairman of Rainier Prep, acharter school in Seattle.^[31]

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