It’s official: Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky is returning to AWS to take over as CEO when Andy Jassy takes the highest job at Amazon later this yr.
This is a shocking end result, as many observers anticipated an inside rent to be made to exchange Jassy, with the likes of AWS gross sales and advertising chief Matt Garman or senior vp Charlie Bell the frontrunners.
Selipsky left AWS to take over as CEO of the analytics vendor Tableau in 2016, which he helped develop right into a $1 billion income firm earlier than navigating a blockbuster $15 billion acquisition by Salesforce in 2019.
He will go away Salesforce to return to the cloud vendor in May 2021 to begin his transition into the CEO position beneath fellow Harvard Business School grad Jassy, beneath whom he labored intently from 2005 to 2016 as COO at AWS.
“Adam brings strong judgment, customer obsession, team building, demand generation, and CEO experience to an already very strong AWS leadership team. And, having been in such a senior role at AWS for 11 years, he knows our culture and business well,” Jassy wrote in an e mail to workers.
AWS is a $12 billion oil tanker inside one other oil tanker of Amazon.com, and as a Jassy acolyte, it’s protected to imagine Selipsky received’t be seeking to shift course too drastically in his new position.
“Adam Selipsky knows AWS—and his new boss—well, having been there for years before leaving to take the CEO position at Tableau. Culturally, there’s a good fit to help AWS keep doing what it’s been doing,” stated Forrester analyst Paul Miller.
“While he has had immense success in running Tableau and he will be super hungry for a new challenge following his induction into Salesforce, running AWS is a different kettle of fish entirely and he will be tested early given the enormous change on the horizon in the cloud computing space,” stated CCS Insights analyst Nick McQuire.
However, there are some areas he might give attention to, reminiscent of bettering AWS penetration with the enterprise market amid fierce competitors from Microsoft and Google Cloud, one thing he efficiently executed on a much smaller scale at Tableau, which he grew from a much-loved information visualization instrument right into a billion-dollar subscription enterprise analytics enterprise.
“His expertise at Tableau and particularly Salesforce, provides him a contemporary perspective on the enterprise leaders that AWS is eager to domesticate. Recent expertise working each a public firm and a giant cloud enterprise unit inside a bigger guardian is a…
