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Amazon CFO To Retire

By TechTaffy Desk

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Thomas Szkutak, senior vice president and chief financial officer at online retail behemoth Amazon, will retire from the company in June 2015. Mr. Szkutak has been Amazon’s CFO since joining the company in October 2002. Brian Olsavsky, vice president of Finance for the company’s global consumer business, will succeed Mr. Szkutak as CFO.

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