Longtime Amazon Executive Departs for Online Lender SoFi
March 12 2020 - 5:33AM
Dow Jones News
By Peter Rudegeair and Dana Mattioli
Longtime Amazon.com Inc. executive Maria Renz is leaving the
e-commerce giant after more than 20 years at the company to join
online lender Social Finance Inc., according to people familiar
with the matter.
Ms. Renz, who joined the then five-year-old Seattle-based
company in 1999, rose through the ranks and, most recently, was
vice president of delivery experience, putting her in charge of
making sure goods make it into customers' hands.
Before that role, she served as technical adviser to Amazon
Chairman and Chief Executive Jeff Bezos. The holder of that coveted
post acts as the CEO's shadow, accompanying Mr. Bezos to meetings
and strategy sessions. Ms. Renz also served as CEO of Amazon retail
subsidiary Quidsi.
At San Francisco-based SoFi, Ms. Renz will lead the
financial-tech startup's credit card, brokerage and bank-account
businesses, one of the people said.
The departure marks the latest shift in Amazon's senior ranks.
Steve Kessel, who led Amazon's physical store efforts, left this
year. Jeff Blackburn, who headed Amazon's entertainment, business
development and advertising businesses, began a year-long
sabbatical earlier this year.
Write to Peter Rudegeair at Peter.Rudegeair@wsj.com and Dana
Mattioli at dana.mattioli@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
March 12, 2020 05:18 ET (09:18 GMT)
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