AWS Appoints Tableau Boss As New CEO

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has named Tableau boss Adam Selipsky as its new Chief Executive Officer. Selipsky has been head of the data visualisation firm – which was acquired in 2019 by Salesforce for a cool $15.7bn - since 2016. Prior to that, he spent over a decade with AWS, heading its Sales, Marketing and Support unit. Current AWS CEO, Andy Jassy, revealed the news of his replacement in a letter to employees. Jassy will be replacing Jeff Bezos as Amazon CEO. “Adam brings strong judgment, customer obsession, team building, demand generation and CEO experience to an already very strong AWS leadership team,” Jassy wrote in the memo. “And, having been in such a senior role at AWS for 11 years, he knows our culture and business well.” Selipsky will re-join the cloud vendor from 17 May and will work with Jassy until his transition sometime during its third quarter. During his tenure at Tableau, Selipsky saw its valuation quadruple and guided its business model transformation from perpetual licencing to subscription licencing. He will take the helm of a public cloud leader that reported a $51bn revenue run rate in its most recent Q4, representing a year-on-year growth rate of 28 per cent. “It’s easy to forget that AWS is still in the very early stages of what’s possible,” Jassy added. “Less than 5 per cent of the global IT spend is in the cloud at this point. That’s going to substantially change in the coming years. We have a lot more to invent for customers, and we have a very strong leadership team and group of builders to go make it happen. I am excited for what lies ahead.” CPaaS has been seeing increased focus and investment from Amazon in recent years, with VP of Business Applications at AWS, Larry Augustin, recently telling UC Today that a number of large software companies are using its Chime SDK offering to deliver services. It also recently tightened its partnership with Zoom.