Stephenie Landry
Stephenie Landry is an American business executive and vice president of Amazon.[1] She is in charge of Amazon Prime Now and AmazonFresh, and she previously led Amazon Restaurants before the service was discontinued in 2019.[2] She led the creation and launch of many other Amazon initiatives, such as Amazon Student, Amazon Mom, and Prime Pantry.[3]
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Occupation |
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Known for | Creating Prime Now |
Title | Vice President, Amazon Grocery |
Education
Landry earned a Women's Studies degree from Wellesley College and attended business school at the University of Michigan.[4]
Career
Landry first came to Amazon as an intern in 2003 while she was attending business school, and she became a full-time Amazon employee in 2004.[1] She started in operations, including work on logistics, transportation, supply chain, customer service, and warehousing, and she went on to create products that heavily leveraged operations.[4] Landry held a series of jobs of increasing responsibility and in 2013, she became a Technical Advisor to Jeff Wilke, who runs Amazon's worldwide consumer business and is considered one of Amazon’s most powerful executives.[1] In 2014, Landry went on to write a detailed memo outlining the idea for Prime Now, and the service launched 111 days later.[5]
Recognition
Wired named Landry to its "Next List 2016," as one of "25 Geniuses Who Are Creating the Future of Business."[6]
References
- "For Amazon exec Stephenie Landry, the future is Now". The Seattle Times. 2016-05-21. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
- Rey, Jason Del (2017-12-21). "Amazon has combined the leadership of Prime Now and Amazon Fresh under one rising-star executive". Vox. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
- Dunn, Laura Emily; Comms, ContributorDigital; Content; traveller, Social Media Practitioner | Political Style blogger | digital democracy advocate | world (2017-01-17). "Women in Biz Q&A: Stephenie Landry, Worldwide VP, Amazon Prime Now". HuffPost. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
- "Amazon's Stephenie Landry on rising from intern to running Prime Now video". Bloomberg Technology. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
- Satell, Greg (2018-09-23). "How Amazon Innovates". Inc.com. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
- Staff, WIRED (2016-04-26). "25 Geniuses Who Are Creating the Future of Business". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2020-04-14.