Msnamazon’s ceo andy jassy has a new advisor who will join him on every meeting he has1 week ago

Jeff Bezos is stepping down as Amazon boss later this year and handing the reins to a company executive few of the public will recognise. However, Andy Jassy, 53, is reported to be a close confidant of Mr Bezos, and has been instrumental in the tech firm's success in recent years. Mr Jassy, who grew up in Scarsdale, New York state, joined Amazon in , three years after it was founded.

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Msnamazon’s ceo andy jassy has a new advisor who will join him on every meeting he has1 week ago: Amazon's CEO Andy Jassy

After working as Mr Bezos's technical assistant, he set up the firm's cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services AWS , in , which has become hugely successful under his leadership. Mr Jassy had been tipped as a potential successor for Mr Bezos for some time, but was declared heir apparent by the Washington Post in September when Jeff Wilke, head of Amazon's consumer business, announced he would retire.

Unlike Mr Bezos, Mr Jassy occasionally speaks out on social issues. In September he tweeted about the need for police accountability after Breonna Taylor, a black woman, was fatally shot in her home by white policemen during a botched raid. He's also a supporter of LGBTQ rights and immigration reform, but attracted controversy for defending sales of Amazon's facial recognition software to the police and foreign governments.

Addressing the ethical concerns last year, he told Frontline that the people who used the technology had to be responsible for it, "and if they use it irresponsibly, they have to be held accountable". It is no secret that Amazon Web Services is the profit engine of Amazon, and Mr Jassy was instrumental in its success.