Amazon names Herrington as CEO of Worldwide Amazon Stores

Tech giant Amazon has announced that Doug Herrington will become the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company’s Worldwide Amazon Stores business, formerly known as “Consumer”.

Harrington has been at Amazon for 17 years. He joined the company in 2005 to build out the Consumables business, launched AmazonFresh in 2007, and in 2015, he took on leading all of Amazon’s North American Consumer business.

“Doug and I have worked together on S-team since 2011. He is a builder of great teams and brings substantial retail, grocery, demand generation, product development, and Amazon experience to bear,” Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, said in a blogpost.