A long-time top Jeff Bezos lieutenant, Jeff Blackburn, is returning to Amazon in a new position, SVP of Global Media & Entertainment.
He will oversee all entertainment business including Prime Video and Amazon Studios, Music, Podcasts/Wondery, Audible, Games, and Twitch.Blackburn, who starts June 7, will report to Bezos until the transition in Q3, and then he’ll report to incoming CEO Andrew Jassy.
Mike Hopkins, Steve Boom, Don Katz, Mike Frazzini, and Emmett Shear will now report into Blackburn.This creates an additional top executive lawyer between Amazon’s streaming operations and the company’s CEO.Jeff Blackburn, SVP and member of outgoing CEO Bezos’s exclusive S-Team, is considered the prime architect of its video-streaming effort.
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