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Jeff Wilke

Jeff Wilke

Amazon Empire: Jeff Wilke Interview | FRONTLINE

Amazon Empire: Jeff Wilke Interview | FRONTLINE

Jeff Wilke is a Chief Executive Officer of the consumer business at Amazon. In August 2020, the company announced that Wilke is retiring early next year after more than two decades at the company.[14]

Education

Jeff did his graduate work (MBA and M.S. in Chemical engineering) at MİT's Leaders For Manufacturing program where he focused on Total Quality and Process improvement techniques. He also holds a BS in Chemical engineering, Summa cum laude, from Princeton University.

Career

Jeff Wilke at a conference

Jeff Wilke at a conference

Jeff Wilke joined Amazon as Vice President and General Manager in Operations in September 1999. Jeff Wilke worked as CEO Worldwide Consumer since April 2016. From February 2012 to April 2016, Jeff was a Senior Vice President in Consumer Business. Previously, he served as a Senior Vice President in North American Retail. From January 2002 until December 2006, he was a Senior Vice President in Worldwide Operations.

He left AlliedSignal (now Honeywell) where he was Vice President and General Manager in Pharmaceutical Fine Chemicals.

Prior to that, he spent five years in a variety of operations leadership assignments in the chemical, polymer, and electronics industries. Jeff Wilke began his working career writing Software and leading Software development at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture).

In August 2020, Amazon announced Wilke is retiring early next year after more than two decades at the company. He will be succeeded by Dave Clark, who is currently the company’s senior vice president for Worldwide Operations.[11][13]

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