Why former Amazon exec Jeff Wilke thinks the U.S. can be a manufacturing powerhouse again
May 4, 2021 at 7:28 am
Jeff Wilke, the former CEO of Amazon’s Worldwide Consumer Business, shows off the company’s delivery drone at an Amazon conference in Las Vegas in June 2019. (Amazon Photo / Jordan Stead)
When Jeff Wilke, the former CEO of Amazon Consumer Worldwide, made the surprise announcement in August that he was leaving, he said he felt it was time to do something else.
“Time for me to take time to explore personal interests that have taken a back seat for over two decades,” Wilke wrote in a heartfelt letter to Amazon’s employees.