Jay Carney, the top policy executive at Amazon and a former White House press secretary, is leaving the company to become the head of policy and communications at Airbnb.
The GeekWire Summit was held in Seattle.
Brian Chesky said in a statement that he was the perfect person to lead policy atAirbnb because of his work at the highest levels of both government and technology.
After working 20 years as a journalist, Carney started working for Amazon in 2015, after serving as press secretary to former president Barack Obama.
The company said that Carney will help ensure that the communities they are in are strengthened as the company grows.
Forbes asked for comment from Amazon, but they didn't reply.
In his role, he ran the company's public relations and tried to forge relationships with politicians in D.C. Congress wants to pass antitrust legislation and Amazon fights to stop it. Lawmakers have accused the company of trying to interfere in workers' efforts to unionize. Everything about his time at Amazon exceeded my expectations, according to an email he sent to his team. Jassy told employees he would start a search to replace Carney. Dave Clark left to join a supply chain software start-up company a month ago. In June of this year, the senior vice president of Amazon's fulfillment operations and the vice president of transportation services both left the company.
There were a number of public controversies at Amazon. He caused a backlash when he called major league baseball umpires overweight and blind. He softened his comments after bashing the Trump administration.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the public policy executive was leaving the tech giant for a startup.
The PR and policy chief for Amazon is leaving.
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