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Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
"The current CEO of Amazon is Andy Jassy."

Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
"In 2020, Andy Jassy replaced Jeff Bezos as the Chief Executive Officer of Amazon. Prior, Jassy served as the CEO of Amazon Web Services. Jeff Bezos still serves on the board and as Executive Chair of Amazon."

Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
Andy Jassy is the current CEO of Amazon. On May 26th, 2021, at Amazon's annual shareholder meeting, Jeff Bezos announced he would officially step down as CEO on July 5th and move into the position of Executive Chair, where he could focus more efforts on philanthropy and his space company Blue Origin. He chose July 5th because it was the anniversary of Amazon when it was incorporation in 1994.

Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.
This question is designed to test how current your knowledge of the company is. Amazon and Jeff Bezos are both household names, and most people are aware of both. However, many people may have taken for granted his role in Amazon and not paid attention to Andy Jassy's promotion to CEO. Before his role as CEO, he was the head of the cloud division at Amazon. Learn what you can about Andy Jassy, what Jeff Bezos is up to today, and where they both feel Amazon is heading in the near future.

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