Stephenie Landry
Stephenie Landry | |
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| Occupations |
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| Known for | Creating Prime Now |
| Title | Vice President, Amazon Grocery |
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]
Education
[edit]Landry earned a Women's Studies degree from Wellesley College and attended business school at the University of Michigan.[4]
Career
[edit]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 at the time ran Amazon's worldwide consumer business and was 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
[edit]Wired named Landry to its "Next List 2016," as one of "25 Geniuses Who Are Creating the Future of Business."[6] Landry was also named to the 2021 and 2022 Fast Company Queer 50 list.[7][8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "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 (2017-01-17). "Women in Biz Q&A: Stephenie Landry, Worldwide VP, Amazon Prime Now". HuffPost. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
- ^ a b "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.
- ^ "25 Geniuses Who Are Creating the Future of Business". Wired. 2016-04-26. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2020-04-14.
- ^ "Announcing Fast Company's second annual Queer 50 list". Fast Company. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
- ^ "Stephenie Landry is No. 18 on the 2022 Fast Company Queer 50 list". Fast Company. Retrieved 2022-06-19.