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Amazon

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

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Jeff Bezos
Business
12-Jan-1964   Founder of Amazon
Joseph Galli, Jr.
Business
9-Oct-1959   CEO of Newell Rubbermaid, 2001-05
K. Ram Shriram
Business
?   Sherpalo Ventures

CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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
John Doerr
Business
29-Jun-1951   Silicon Valley venture capitalist
Bing Gordon
Business
c. 1950   Chief Creative Officer, Electronic Arts
Myrtle Potter
Business
1958   COO of Genentech, 2000-04
Thomas O. Ryder
Business
c. 1944   CEO of Readers Digest, 1998-2005
Patty Stonesifer
Business
c. 1956   Co-Chair of Gates Foundation

PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Scott Cook
Business
c. 1952   Co-Founder of Intuit
Joseph Galli, Jr.
Business
9-Oct-1959   CEO of Newell Rubbermaid, 2001-05

NOTABLE EMPLOYEES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Col Needham
Encyclopaedist
26-Jan-1967   IMDB founder


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