Amazon’s next CEO, Andy Jassy, transformed e-commerce company into a cloud computing giant

Amazon’s next CEO, Andy Jassy, transformed e-commerce company into a cloud computing giant

Andy Jassy, Amazon AWS Source: CNBCAndy Jassy has spent the past 15 years converting Amazon from an e-commerce giant into a highly profitable technology company, creating and then dominating the cloud infrastructure market.Now, he's about to take center stage as CEO of the third-most valuable U.S. company after Apple and Microsoft. Amazon said on Tuesday that Jassy will succeed Jeff Bezos at the helm in the third quarter, becoming the second CEO in the company's 27-year history.Jassy, 53, is a member of Bezos' elite group of executives called the S-team. While he's been head of AWS since its inception, Bezos elevated him by giving him the title of AWS CEO in 2016. In September, a column in the Washington Post, which Bezos owns, called Jassy the "clear heir apparent" to BezosJassy graduated from Harvard University in 1990 and from Harvard Business School in 1997. He then went straight to Amazon and never left. In an interview last fall, he said that his wife and he agreed they'd move to the west coast to be closer to her family for a few years and then move back to New York. "That was 23 years ago of course and the statute of limitations