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. Olsavsky joined Amazon.com in April 2002. As CFO of Amazon.com, he oversees the company's overall financial activities, including controllership, tax, treasury, analysis, investor relations, internal audit and financial operations.

Prior to becoming Senior Vice President and CFO in June 2015, he served as Vice President, Finance and CFO for the Global Consumer Business. In his role as Vice President, Finance and CFO for the Global Consumer Business, Mr. Olsavsky had oversight and responsibility for the finance team supporting Amazon.com websites, merchant services, and fulfillment operations and subsidiaries.

From 2007 to 2010, Mr. Olsavsky was Vice President, Finance for Amazon's North America retail business unit and acquisitions, and from 2002 to 2007 Mr. Olsavsky led the finance departments for Amazon's Worldwide Operations organization. Prior to joining Amazon.com, Mr. Olsavsky spent seven years at Fisher Scientific, where he held a variety of financial and business management roles, and a total of eight years at BF Goodrich and Union Carbide, where he held a variety of financial and operational roles.

Olsavsky received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Penn State and an MBA in Finance from Carnegie Mellon University. Blackburn has served as Senior Vice President, Business Development, since April 2006. From June 2004 to April 2006, he was Vice President, Business Development, from July 2003 to June 2004, he was Vice President, European Customer Service and from November 2002 to July 2003, he was Vice President, Operations Integration. Prior to joining Amazon.com in 1998, Mr. Blackburn was Assistant Vice President at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell.

He holds a BA from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Andy Jassy is CEO of Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. Having led AWS since its inception, he’s managed an inventive and nimble team that has delivered more than 90 cloud infrastructure and application services that are used by millions of startup, enterprise, and government customers around the world. Jassy joined Amazon in 1997. Prior to founding AWS, he held various leadership roles across the company.

He has an AB from Harvard University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Jeff Wilke has served as CEO Worldwide Consumer since April 2016. From February 2012 to April 2016, Jeff served as Senior Vice President, Consumer Business, from January 2007 until February 2012, he served as Senior Vice President, North American Retail, and from January 2002 until December 2006, he was Senior Vice President, Worldwide Operations. Jeff joined Amazon.com as Vice President and General Manager, Operations in September 1999. He left AlliedSignal (now Honeywell) where he was Vice-President and General Manager, Pharmaceutical Fine Chemicals.

Jeff spent the preceding six years in a variety of operations and general management assignments in the chemical, polymer, and electronics industries. Jeff did his graduate work (MBA and MS in Chemical Engineering) at MIT's Leaders for Global Operations (formerly Leaders for Manufacturing) program where he focused on Total Quality and Process Improvement techniques. He began his working career writing software and leading software development at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture).

Jeff also holds a BSE degree in Chemical Engineering, Summa Cum Laude, from Princeton University. David Zapolsky joined Amazon.com in November 1999 as Associate General Counsel for Litigation and Regulatory matters and was promoted to Vice President in April 2002.

He became Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary in September 2012, overseeing the company’s legal, policy, compliance, and regulatory affairs, and Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary in May 2014. Prior to joining Amazon.com, David was a partner at the Seattle offices of Dorsey & Whitney and Bogle & Gates.

Before moving to Seattle from New York City in 1994, he served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office and later practiced law at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz. He received his undergraduate degree in music from Columbia University and a J.D. With honors from the University of California, Berkeley. Alberg has been a director since June 1996. Alberg has been a managing director of Madrona Venture Group, LLC, a venture capital firm, since September 1999, and a principal in Madrona Investment Group, LLC, a private investment firm, since January 1996. Prior to co-founding Madrona Investment Group, Mr. Alberg served as president of LIN Broadcasting Corporation, Executive Vice President of McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc., and Executive Vice President of AT&T Wireless Services.

Previously, he was chair of the Executive Committee and Partner at Perkins Coie, the Northwest’s largest law firm. Alberg has served as a director of Impinj, Inc. Since September 2000. Apple rumoured to move forward without intel cpus for mac.

Gorelick has been a director since February 2012. Gorelick has been a partner with the law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP since July 2003. She has held numerous positions in the U.S. Government, serving as Deputy Attorney General of the United States, General Counsel of the Department of Defense, Assistant to the Secretary of Energy, and a member of the bipartisan National Commission on Terrorist Threats Upon the United States. Gorelick has served as a director of VeriSign, Inc. Since January 2015, a director of United Technologies Corporation from February 2000 to December 2014, and a director of Schlumberger Limited from April 2002 to June 2010. McGrath has been a director since July 2014.

McGrath serves as a senior advisor to Astronauts Wanted. No experience necessary, a multimedia joint venture that Ms. McGrath formed with Sony Music Entertainment, and served as President of Astronauts Wanted from June 2013 to March of 2018. The company is currently a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Television. McGrath served as Chair and Chief Executive Officer of MTV Networks Entertainment Group worldwide, a division of Viacom, Inc., including Comedy Central and Nickelodeon, from July 2004 until May 2011. Rubinstein has been a director since December 2010.

Rubinstein was co-CEO of Bridgewater Associates, LP, a global investment management firm, from May 2016 to April 2017. Previously, Mr. Rubinstein was Senior Vice President, Product Innovation, for the Personal Systems Group at the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP), a multinational information technology company, from July 2011 to January 2012, and served as Senior Vice President and General Manager, Palm Global Business Unit, at HP from July 2010 to July 2011. Rubinstein was Chief Executive Officer and President of Palm, Inc., a smartphone manufacturer, from June 2009 until its acquisition by HP in July 2010, and Chairman of the Board of Palm, Inc.

From October 2007 through the acquisition. Prior to joining Palm, Mr. Rubinstein was a Senior Vice President at Apple Inc., also serving as the General Manager of the iPod Division. Rubinstein served as a director of Qualcomm Incorporated from May 2013 to May 2016. Ryder has been a director since November 2002. Ryder was Chairman of the Reader’s Digest Association, Inc. From April 1998 to December 2006, and was Chief Executive Officer from April 1998 to December 2005.

From 1984 to 1998, Mr. Ryder worked in several roles at American Express, including as President of American Express Travel Related Services International. Ryder has been a director of Interval Leisure Group, Inc. Since May 2016.

He served as a director of RPX Corporation from December 2009 to June 2017, a director of Quad/Graphics, Inc. From July 2010 to May 2017, a director of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. From April 2001 to September 2016, and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Virgin Mobile USA, Inc.

From October 2007 to November 2009. Stonesifer has been a director since February 1997. Stonesifer has served as the President and CEO of Martha’s Table, a non-profit, since April 2013. She served as Chair of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution from January 2009 to January 2012 and as Vice Chair from January 2012 to January 2013.

From September 2008 to January 2012, she served as senior advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a private philanthropic organization, where she was Chief Executive Officer from January 2006 to September 2008 and President and Co-chair from June 1997 to January 2006. Since September 2009, she has also served as a private philanthropy advisor. From 1988 to 1997, she worked in many roles at Microsoft Corporation, including as a Senior Vice President of the Interactive Media Division, and also served as the Chairwoman of the Gates Learning Foundation from 1997 to 1999. Weeks has been a director since February 2016. Weeks has been the Chief Executive Officer of Corning Incorporated, a glass and materials science innovator, since April 2005; Chairman of the board of directors since April 2007; and President since December 2010.

He has held leadership roles in financial management, business development, commercial leadership, and general management across many of Corning’s businesses and technologies since joining the company in 1983. Weeks has served as a director of Merck & Co., Inc. Since February 2004.

The words 'I wish I could quit you' take on a whole new meaning when you want out of a relationship with an Internet service. Sure, you once thought you and Facebook or Amazon or Netflix would be together forever, but terms of service can change, end-user license agreements mature, and, well, you're just not in the same place any more. Sadly, not all websites, social networks and online retailers are created equal when it comes to breaking up. With some, it takes only a couple of clicks to say goodbye. For a few sites, if you stop paying for the service, the site cuts ties fairly quickly. Others make you jump through more hoops than a tiger at the circus. Even after you follow all of the required steps, some of these sites never quite leave you alone, with vestiges of your relationship around forever.

No matter what you call it — deleting, cancelling, removing — when you want to be rid of an online account, many sites don't make it easy. You don't want to rush into a break-up, but if you're ready, we've compiled the links and tips you need to sever all ties. (And let's be clear, there's a difference between deleting an account and just deactivating it — more on this later). This list includes the big-name sites most people use. If you're looking for a site that's not on our list, check out,. All three sites serve the same purpose — to let you know what sites and services make it easy to leave, which make it difficult, and which make it impossible. Did we miss a service you want to ditch?

Let us know in the comments section. And if you've managed to quit a service not in this story, be kind and share your tips. Social networks and online services Feeling anti-social? Here's how to dump Facebook, Twitter, and many others. Facebook The mac-daddy of social networking, Facebook has approximately 1.19 billion monthly active users, so it probably doesn't miss the very few who decide to delete or deactivate accounts.

But before you give Zuckerberg and pals the old heave-ho, bear in mind that Facebook has become an almost-de-facto login option for many, many online services, retailers, and media outlets. Some even require you to use Facebook. So killing a Facebook account could lock you out of more than just one social network. Pretty crafty, huh? If you're ready to cut ties, the link to deactivate is in your account settings, under Privacy, but to use while logged in. Facebook will try to convince you to stay by showing you photos of the friends who will presumably miss your online presence.

But if you forge ahead, Facebook will ask you to specify why you're leaving, whether you'll opt-out of future emails, agree to delete any apps or pages you've developed, and then you can hit confirm. The move effectively puts your account to sleep. Facebook will leave you alone, but there's the option to reactivate. To fully delete an account, go to.

Just be aware that, per the Facebook data use policy: 'After you remove information from your profile or delete your account, copies of that information may remain viewable elsewhere to the extent it has been shared with others, it was otherwise distributed pursuant to your privacy settings, or it was copied or stored by other users.' Translation: If you wrote a comment on a friend's status update or photo, it will remain even after you delete your own profile. Twitter Your tweets, on the other hand, are a breeze to obliterate. Visit Twitter's page from a desktop web browser (you can't do it via mobile) and you can deactivate your account. After 30 days — the grace period for you to return —t he account and data is deleted. Note that, the six-second video sharing service owned by Twitter, is also matched to your Twitter account, so deleting Twitter deletes your Vine.

If you want to delete Vine individually and keep Twitter, you need to contact the company via the. LinkedIn It could be argued that LinkedIn is the most useful social network around, especially for job networking. That doesn't mean you won't want to cancel.

In fact, LinkedIn specifically suggests that if you have multiple accounts, you should close one to consolidate. To close an account, log in via a desktop browser and click the thumbnail pic in the upper right to access Account & Settings, then choose Privacy & Settings from the menu.

Click the Accounts tab, and look for a link called 'Close Your Account.' Give a reason you're leaving — most sites want to know what they can improve, or did wrong — and then click Continue. You have time to reinstate your account, if you regret the deletion. Contact Customer Service and confirm your email address to do so. LinkedIn provides a link to contact them on the bottom of every page. Google Google is big.

Huge, in fact. The company has so many services — office suite via Google Drive, email via Gmail, picture sharing via Picasa, blogging with Blogger, apps and media via the Google Play store, advertising via AdSense, video sharing via YouTube, and of course it has its own social network in Google+.

Deleting all of them in one fell swoop is actually quite easy when you visit. That's all it takes to walk away entirely (and lose all those files, emails, videos, etc). You get a small grace period to reinstate the account from the, but the window is not long. Unfortunately, this is the only way to get rid of some accounts within Google. There's no way to completely delete a Blogger account (only individual blogs under it) without doing this, for example., depending on if you associated your YouTube with your Google+.

Speaking of Google+, to 'downgrade' and get rid of it alone, and it will show you exactly how downgrading impacts all your other attached Google services. Microsoft Your Microsoft account has previously gone by other names, such as Windows Live ID, MSN log-in,.NET Passport, and so forth. Sticking with branding is not a strong suit at Redmond.

The Microsoft account is now a single sign in to everything Microsofty, from Outlook.com to Skype to Xbox Live to Microsoft Office 365 subscriptions. How you access your account depends on what site you enter, but there's a for account access. Here's where you would set up account aliases, change security info, and, best of all, click the 'Close account' link at the bottom. Microsoft promise that it 'deletes all the data associated' if you do so. It won't be that simple for most people, however. You can't delete until you've cancelled any premium (paid) services or subscriptions you have with while logged in. Yahoo When you delete your Yahoo account, you're signing out permanently from a number of services: Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Messenger, Yahoo Groups, Flickr, etc.

Before you do so, be sure to shut off your premium services, if any, via. There is a, which will spell out what your Yahoo ID deletion does, and that it may take up to 90 days for full deletion to go through.

Flickr Note again, killing your Yahoo account kills your Flickr account. But you can delete Flickr separately and leave Yahoo intact by visiting Flickr's.

Tumblr Yahoo bought Tumblr, but the blog site is still separate enough to have its own login. You can delete your blog (or blogs) without killing the account, of course, using the. Killing your entire Tumblr account is done at.

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Reddit Reddit users have it easy when it comes to account deletion, which makes sense for such a tech-savvy location. Just surf to while signed in to take care of it. Evernote Evernote is an easy-to-use repository for anything and everything you might want to store while you're online. Getting rid of your data and account isn't as easy.

First, log in and delete every single thing you stored there — and delete the trash, too, as those items are not automatically erased. Then go to the of the site. Note that it's not a true deletion, but it does prevent you from accessing Evernote with that same email address ever again. (You can change your email address easily enough under settings, don't use the nuclear option for that). Pinterest This is another site where you can deactivate the account to stop using it, but can't actually delete it. Once you do it, the boards and everything you pinned are no longer available and the account is unlinked from services like Facebook and Twitter.

But the username and email on the account remain in place (so at least change the email address if you want to set up a new Pinterest account later). To deactivate, click your name while logged in, go to, and you'll find the deactivation button at the bottom. Skype It used to be impossible to kill a Skype account, but you can reportedly now do it via an online chat with Skype representatives.

It's only possible if you're logged into the Skype.com site, so they can tell it's you. They'll still ask for proof by asking you to identify at least five contacts in your Skype account, plus the email you used to sign up. After that, they'll shut it down for you. (This only works for Skype IDs, not if you use your Microsoft ID to log into Skype). Online retailers.

Want to drop those online shops? Here's how to rid yourself of Amazon, eBay and company.

Amazon Closing your account at Amazon means no longer having access to Wish Lists or Associate Accounts or any other associated content. The cancellation is not necessary if all you want to do is change your email or credit card on the account. You can perform either of those tasks under the Your Account link, which you'll find in the upper right-hand corner of any Amazon page. To actually delete an account altogether, make sure you have no orders outstanding.

Go into, and click on the Contact Us link on the right. Write a brief note to Amazon telling them why you want out, and send it off. Audible.com Amazon's arm for audiobooks has an Account Details link on every page (just click your name at the top when signed in). Verify your password (it's probably the same as your Amazon account, if you've merged them), and look for the Change My Membership link. On the next page, scroll down; you'll see a Cancel Membership Plan link.

Cancelling means saying goodbye to any accumulated credits on your account. However, you can still get access to your library of audiobooks to re-download, if needed. Obviously, this is more of a 'deactivation' than a 'deletion.'

If the cancellation doesn't work, call them. Try 888-283-5051, or 973-820-0400 outside of the US and Canada. Apple/iTunes Apple ties everything you do – computers purchased on Apple.com, entertainment bought on iTunes, or apps downloaded — to your Apple ID. Getting rid of an Apple ID is next to impossible. If you make a mistake and create an account you don't want, it can't be merged with another account. There are reports that you can call customer service and ask for an account to be deleted, but don't count on it unless you can supply a certificate showing the customer is deceased.

Here's what you can do: Make sure no credit cards or 'trusted devices' are associated with the account by visiting. You should also 'delete' your Apple ID from your Mac or iOS device if you no longer want to use it — but your existing Apple ID will always exist in the servers at Cupertino. By the way, one reason to not deactivate your Apple ID with your software, in particular iTunes, is DRM. Music and video are tied to your account via Digital Rights Management to protect the copyright, but you'll be the one getting punished if you can't listen to your tunes any more just because you messed with your account.

Ebay/PayPal Killing an eBay account means never going back — at least, not with the same email address or user ID. Although this could be a handy thing for those accumulating bad feedback. Cancellation is not immediate; you get 180 days to finalise any transactions. If you change your mind during that time, you can reactivate the account.

EBay holds on to your records even after shuttering your account, 'to comply with laws, prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our eBay User Agreement, and take other actions as permitted by law.' To close an eBay or PayPal account altogether, visit the.

You'll have to sign in, of course. You get a choice to shut down the whole account, a seller account, an eBay store, or just your PayPal account. Follow the instructions for whichever you choose. Entertainment services Had your fill of movies? Then read on for our entertainment service divorce tips.

Netflix Netflix knows that if you cancel something, you want it done in real-time. It even warns that your cancellation will be 'effective immediately.'

But note that it's really just deactivation. You can't really delete all the info Netflix has from you — ratings, reviews, and so on, as that's all fodder for them in creating recommendations. To get loose, visit the your Account page, and click either 'Cancel Streaming plan' or 'Cancel DVD plan.' Rotten Tomatoes Flixster's site for rating movies provides an on how to cancel out of Rotten Tomatoes. That's because you might have signed up with a Flixster account, or using your Facebook login. Ultimately, what it boils down to is you have to send an email to ryan.fujitani@flixster-inc.com asking to get deleted. IMDB Pro Yes, you can have a paid account at the world's best database of movie and TV info (which is owned by Amazon).

If you don't want it any more, there's a straight up that will take care of that. Dating sites And last but not least, here's how to wipe yourself from those dating sites once you've found your ideal partner. EHarmony You can quit the service by accessing your membership page on the site and selecting My Settings and then Account Settings. Look for Subscription Status and click either 'Cancel My Subscription' (so you don't pay anymore, but your matches stay accessible) or 'Close Account.'

Match.com If you're trying Match.com's free trial and don't want to continue, you can resign your subscription. Go to your Account Settings and select the Change/Cancel Membership page. If you're a paid member and don't want to renew, go to the same page. You can still sign in until the end of your subscription term, however. Once you've found a new love, just be sure to hide that profile. You can't really delete it forever, though, as Match.com keeps your data in storage even if it's not accessible to others 'for historical and legal purposes only.' PlentyOfFish Straight to the point, PlentyOfFish lets you stop casting a net utterly and permanently when you visit the page.

The site might delete you itself if you misbehave. Some accounts you can't get rid of There are a startling number of services and publications online that do not let you delete an account at all. They generally state it up front in the terms of service — you know, the text that no one ever reads.

If you suddenly decide to reclaim your privacy and want to obliterate yourself from the following services, well, you're out of luck. Note that most of these companies keep this information for legal and regulatory reasons. Some are just not that into helping you. —A paid account can be set to free by cancelling your subscription, but a free account?

That's forever. (including Gawker, Lifehacker, io9, Jalopnik, Deadspin, and more)—Despite once having compromised user security, Gawker's ToS states: 'We don't allow deletion of accounts or comments.' —If you want to leave Sony's game network behind, the best you can do is change all the personal info in the account and walk away.

—Wikipedia wants attribution on changes to its millions of articles, so it doesn't allow a username to be deleted. It can, however, be changed.

—You can't delete an account, but you can delete the individual blogs associated with it. It suggests simply leaving the account inactive if you don't want it any longer.