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Jeffrey P. BezosPresident, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
Age: 49
Salary: $81,840 via Bloomberg: [22] "As Amazon’s founder, Bezos owns almost 87 million shares, or about a 19 percent stake, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The stock surged 45 percent in 2012, and that stake is currently worth about $23.5 billion. Bezos is the world’s 20th-richest person, with a fortune of $25 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index." via Amazon.com: [23] "Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994. Amazon’s mission is to be Earth's most customer-centric company. Amazon offers low prices and fast delivery on millions of items, designs and builds the bestselling Kindle hardware, and empowers companies and governments in over 190 countries around the world with the leading cloud computing infrastructure through its Amazon Web Services offering. Bezos is also the founder of aerospace company Blue Origin, which is working to lower the cost and increase the safety of spaceflight so that humans can better continue exploring the solar system.Bezos graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University in 1986, and was named TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year in 1999." |