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"Amazon has always been, and always will be, committed to diversity and inclusion," the spokesperson said. chopp and change my phrases, wrinch my wordes, and hale every sillable most extremely, even to the disjoynting and maiming of my whole meaning. Jennifer Salke took the helm of Amazon Studios last year. That number goes up slightly if you include public relations and human resources roles.Īn Amazon spokesperson said in an email that the company is "focused on continuing to diversify our workplace," and highlighted female leaders like Maria Renz, who oversees its delivery experience, and Toni Reid, who heads up the Alexa experience. Only four of the 48 executives in those roles are women. As CNBC previously reported, almost all of the executives at the top of Amazon's core businesses, like retail, cloud and hardware, are white men. Bezos attributed the ratio to very low turnover on the team, and he said he expects "any transition there to happen very incrementally over a long period of time."īut lack of diversity goes beyond the S-team into the broader leadership ranks. Lack of diversityīezos addressed the diversity issue during an internal all-hands meeting in 2017, when an employee asked about the lack of female and minority leaders on the S-team.

The only other AWS employees on the S-team are Jassy and Charlie Bell, senior vice president of Utility Computing Services. AWS is now a $25 billion annual business and is the company's primary profit generator. Since joining the company in 1998, DeSantis has held various engineering positions, but he's best known for helping launch Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), the cloud service that lets other businesses offload much of their data center needs to Amazon. The promotion is a big stamp of approval by Bezos and Amazon's leadership team, signifying DeSantis's rise in the ranks. DeSantis's official title remains vice president of global infrastructure and customer support at AWS. Bezos regularly meets with the group to make key business decisions, but not every member reports directly to the CEO as they take on different projects and leadership roles within the company. The S-team includes Bezos's most trusted advisers like Andy Jassy, the CEO of AWS, Jeff Wilke, head of the global consumer business, and finance chief Brian Olsavsky. The addition followed two high-profile departures last year. Sebastian Gunningham, who ran the company's marketplace, left to join WeWork, and Diego Piacentini opted not to return to Amazon after taking a two-year leave to work with the Italian government.