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87 Senior Vice President of Business Development astatine Amazon Jeff Blackburn (R) and Anne Blackburn be the The IMDb Dinner Party astatine the Sundance Film Festival presented by Dolby connected January 28, 2019 successful Park City, Utah.
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Jeff Blackburn is retiring for the 2nd clip from Amazon, wherever helium held a fig of high-profile enactment roles implicit 2 decades.
Amazon said Friday that the elder vice president of planetary media and amusement volition stay astatine the institution done aboriginal 2023 to "ensure a creaseless transition."
Blackburn joined Amazon successful 1998 and has worked connected a fig initiatives astatine the institution including advertising, Amazon Studios and Prime Video work and euphony business. He helped usher Amazon done its IPO erstwhile helium was a inferior concern banker astatine Deutsche Bank.
"Amazon wouldn't beryllium the aforesaid institution without Jeff, and I'd similar to convey him for his galore contributions to the company's occurrence frankincense acold and successful the future," Amazon main Andy Jassy said successful a statement.
In Feb. 2021, Blackburn announced the archetypal clip helium was retiring from Amazon, pursuing a year-long sabbatical. He rejoined that May arsenic the elder vice president of a caller Global Media & Entertainment division, overseeing Amazon's video, music, podcast, and gaming businesses.
With Blackburn's upcoming departure, Amazon said it would marque immoderate enactment changes. Mike Hodges, the existent caput of Prime Video, Amazon Studios and MGM volition study to Jassy on with Steve Boom, who leads the company's euphony and podcasting teams. Boom volition besides pb the company's Audible, Twitch and Games businesses.
"The past 18 months person been a thrill – moving with each of you successful GME and launching immoderate of our biggest, boldest projects ever successful amusement and sports," Blackburn said successful a statement. "But I've decided to walk 2023 differently, giving much clip to family, and consciousness powerfully this is the close determination for me.
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