Andy Jassy is an American businessman who has served as Amazon’s president and CEO since July 2021. Jassy has been the CEO of amazon web services (AWS) since its inception in the year 2003. On the 5th of July, 2021, he succeeded Jeff Bezos as amazon’s president and CEO, and Bezos was named executive chairman.
Early life
Andy or Andrew was born on 13th January 1968 as the son of Scarsdale New York residents Margery and Everett L. Jassy. He is Jewish and of Hungarian descent. His father a senior partner and chairman of the management committee at the corporate law firm Dewey Ballantine in New York. Kathy Savitt, his sister was a former president of strategic communications, content, and entertainment activities at amazon.
Jassy was raised in Scarsdale and graduated from Scarsdale High school. Jassy graduated with honors, cum Laude, from Harvard College in government, where he worked as the advertising manager for The Harvard Crimson before attending Harvard Business school and earning an MBA.
Andy Jassy Career
After graduation, Jassy worked 5 years before enrolling in his MBA program. He worked as a project manager for MBI, a collectibles company, and then he and MBI colleague started and closed a company. He joined Amazon in 1997, along with a few other Harvard and MBA classmates. Early on, he worked as a marketing manager. In the year 2003 jeff and he conceived of the cloud computing platform that would become known as amazon web services (AWS), which debuted in 2006. Jassy was in charge of AWS and its 57-person team.
The financial times named Jassy Person of the year in March 2016. Due to his excellent performance, he was promoted from senior vice president to CEO of AWS a month later. Jassy earned $36.6 million that year and he received a base salary of $175000 in 2020 for his work as CEO of AWS, as well as a restricted stock unit award of 4023 shares (a value of $12104844.93) as of July 26, 2020, of amazon, with vesting beginning in 2023.
Andy Jassy Biography |
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| Real Name | Andrew R. Jassy |
| Birth Date | 13 January 1968 |
| Age (as of 2021) | 53 Years |
| Birth Place | Scarsdale, New York, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Profession | Businessman |
| Religion | Judaism |
| Sun sign | Capricorn |
Physical Statistics |
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| Height | in feet inches – 5’ 7” – in Centimeters – 170 cm |
| Weight | in Kilograms – 70 kg – in Pounds – 154 lbs |
| Hair Color | Light Brown |
| Eye Color | Blue |
| Body Type | Slim |
Family |
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| Father | Everett L. Jassy |
| Mother | Margery Jassy |
| Sister | Kathy Savitt |
| Brother | None |
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| School | Harvard Business School, Scarsdale High School |
| College | Harvard College |
Relationship Status |
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| Marital Status | Married |
| Affair | No |
| Is he a Gay? | No |
| Wife | Elana Rochelle Caplan |
| Children | Two |
Personal life
Jassy married Elana Rochelle Caplan, an Eddie Bauer fashion designer and graduate of the Philadelphia college of textiles and science, at the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel in 1997. Their fathers were both senior partners at the law firm Dewey Ballantine. They have two kids together. There are numerous accounts on his name but it’s hard to know which one is authentic. Currently, he is on trendy topics as he going to take the position of Jeff Bezos.
Andy Jassy Net worth
Jassy’s salary and net worth figures as of 2021 are around $440 million as an American technology executive. He made his fortune through a long career with Amazon, where he helped develop what would eventually become amazon web services, the company’s most profitable division that powers much of the internet today.
Trivia
- The handover took place on July 5, 2021, as it was the 27th anniversary of Amazon’s official founding.
- It was also revealed that AWS made $12.7 billion in sales in the fourth quarter of 2020, bringing the unit’s annual revenue to $50 billion.
- Jassy was reported to have purchased a $6.7 million 5,500-square-foot house in Santa Monica, California, in October 2020.
- Jassy and his family live in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, in a 10,000-square-foot house purchased in 2009 for $3.1 million.
- He is also a minority owner of the national hockey league’s Seattle Kraken.
- Jassy is the chairman of Rainier Prep, a charter school in Seattle, in addition to his roles at Amazon.
