Amazon’s outgoing Echo head is Blue Origin’s new CEO

Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith is retiring on the finish of the 12 months and his alternative is coming from Jeff Bezos’ different firm.

Dave Limp, an Amazon veteran who had deliberate to step down from his function as head of the corporate’s shopper units division, is taking on the CEO spot. Limp, who was the corporate’s senior vp of units and companies for greater than 13 years, had overseen the event and rollout of quite a few merchandise, together with Echo and Alexa, in addition to Amazon’s line of Hearth tablets.

The manager shuffling was first reported by CNBC, which seen inner memos between Smith and Bezos.

Blue Origin is within the midst of juggling quite a lot of house initiatives, together with the launch of its next-gen rocket and returning its New Shepard house tourism rocket to flight. The house firm is also engaged on a $34.7 million contract awarded by NASA to proceed advancing its resolution to course of photo voltaic cells from lunar regolith. Blue Origin has stated this course of “would bootstrap limitless electrical energy and energy transmission cables wherever on the floor of the Moon.”

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