COMPANY

Online bookstore and products retailer, founded in 1994.

Official Website:
http://www.amazon.com/

Industry:
Retail

Ticker:
NASDAQ:AMZN

Corporate headquarters:
Seattle, WA

Sales:
$8.5B (2005)

Employees:
13,000

EXECUTIVES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Jeff Bezos	Business	12-Jan-1964		Founder of Amazon
Joseph Galli, Jr.	Business	9-Oct-1959		CEO of Newell Rubbermaid, 2001-05
Jason Kilar	Business	c. 1971		CEO of Hulu
K. Ram Shriram	Business	?		Sherpalo Ventures
Thomas J. Szkutak	Business	c. 1961		CFO of Amazon

CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Tom A. Alberg	Business	c. 1940		Madrona Venture Group
Jeff Bezos	Business	12-Jan-1964		Founder of Amazon
John Seely Brown	Business	c. 1940		Director of Xerox PARC, 1990-2000
Bing Gordon	Business	c. 1950		Chief Creative Officer, Electronic Arts, 1998-2008
Myrtle Potter	Business	1958		COO of Genentech, 2000-04
Thomas O. Ryder	Business	c. 1944		CEO of Readers Digest, 1998-2005
Patty Stonesifer	Business	1956		Co-Chair of Gates Foundation

PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Scott Cook	Business	c. 1952		Co-Founder of Intuit
John Doerr	Business	29-Jun-1951		Silicon Valley venture capitalist
Joseph Galli, Jr.	Business	9-Oct-1959		CEO of Newell Rubbermaid, 2001-05

NOTABLE EMPLOYEES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Col Needham	Encyclopaedist	26-Jan-1967		IMDB founder

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