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Scouting report · AMZN

Brian T. Olsavsky

  • Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, AMZN since 2015-06src

Amazon's CFO since June 2015; in Amazon finance roles since 2002

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Scouting sheet

as of 24 Sep 2026
Delivers guidance—no promises on the record yet
Answers the question—no call reviewed yet
Capital allocation—company not reviewed yet
Pay design67time only · 94% for · 0.00% of net income
Skin in the game—no holding or price on file
Age
62src
In the role
11 yr
Promises scored
0
Hit rate
—
Dodges / 100 answers
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Airtime on calls
—
Every promise, oldest firstno scored promises yet

What to weigh

Watch 3

  • Two immediate family members work at Amazon and appear in the proxy's related-person transactions; the company has no written related-person policy and relies on the Audit Committeesrc
  • Terminated a 10b5-1 plan on 2025-11-19 (adopted 2025-05-20, up to 53,249 shares through March 2026); adopted a new one on 2026-05-14 and sold 6,172 shares under it on 2026-08-21src
  • All equity is time-vested RSUs granted about every other year (reported pay swings from $0.37m to $25.7m), with no performance condition and no bonussrc

In their favour 1

  • Sold none of the shares from the November 2025, February 2026 and May 2026 vests; the only sale in 12 months was about $1.6msrc

Career

  1. 2015 – now
    Amazon.comsrc
    Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
    Since June 2015
  2. 2011 – 2015
    Amazon.comsrc
    Vice President, Finance, Global Consumer Business
    December 2011 to June 2015
  3. 2002 – 2011
    Amazon.comsrc
    Numerous financial leadership roles with global responsibility
    Joined April 2002
  4. 1994 – 2002
    Fisher Scientific Internationalsrc
    Finance and senior logistics management roles
    Start year inferred from the search summary's 'five years' at BFGoodrich; no dated primary source found
  5. 1989 – 1994
    BFGoodrichsrc
    Corporate finance, under the treasurer (Akron, Ohio)

Not located: Pre-2002 career (BFGoodrich, Fisher Scientific) comes only from a search summary; Amazon's filings give no pre-Amazon history and no 8-K announced his 2015 appointment

Achievements

  • Has been Amazon's CFO since June 2015, through FY2025 net income of $77.7bnsrc
  • Amazon's GAAP net income rose from $30.4bn (FY2023) to $59.2bn (FY2024) and $77.7bn (FY2025)src
  • Ran finance for the Global Consumer Business (2011-2015) before becoming CFO; at Amazon since April 2002src
  • Named a Penn State Outstanding Engineering Alumnus in 2019 and an Alumni Fellow in 2023src

Education

  • Pennsylvania State University, BS Mechanical Engineering (1985)src
  • Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper School of Business), MBA Finance (1989)src

Background

  • Family The 2026 proxy discloses that his adult daughter and his son-in-law are Amazon employees, paid in line with peers at their level per the company (Item 404)src
  • Boards Listed on a Columbia Business School advisory board page (search result only)src
  • Other No employment, severance or change-in-control agreement; unvested units lapse on leaving for any reason other than death, when two years' scheduled vesting acceleratessrc

The promise ledger

No promise on the record yet: the research routine has not scored this company's guidance.

Sources

11
  1. Filing Amazon.com DEF 14A, 2026 annual meeting (accession 0001104659-26-041026) · 2026-04-09
  2. Filing Amazon.com 10-K FY2025 (0001018724-26-000004): Information About Our Executive Officers (as of 2026-01-28) and Item 9B trading plans · 2026-02-06
  3. Filing Amazon.com 8-K Item 5.07, 2026 annual meeting results (0001104659-26-065717) · 2026-05-22
  4. Filing SEC XBRL companyconcept us-gaap/NetIncomeLoss, CIK 1018724 (FY2025 10-K, 0001018724-26-000004) · 2026-02-06
  5. Filing Form 4, Brian T. Olsavsky (reporting CIK 1639902), RSU award of 2026-04-08 (0001639902-26-000004) · 2026-04-09
  6. Filing Form 4, Brian T. Olsavsky, vest and 10b5-1 sale of 2026-08-21 (0001639902-26-000008) · 2026-08-25
  7. Filing Form 4, Brian T. Olsavsky, RSU vest of 2025-11-21, no sale (0001639902-25-000003) · 2025-11-25
  8. Web search result WebSearch: Brian Olsavsky (Wikipedia summary: BS Penn State, MBA Carnegie Mellon; began at BFGoodrich in 1989 for five years, then Fisher Scientific in finance and logistics roles) · 2026-09-24
  9. Web search result WebSearch: Penn State Mechanical Engineering, 'Amazon CFO named Outstanding Engineering Alumnus' (2019; BS Mechanical Engineering 1985, MBA Finance Carnegie Mellon) · 2026-09-24
  10. Web search result WebSearch: Penn State Alumni Association award page, Mr. Brian T. Olsavsky '85g (2023 Alumni Fellow) · 2026-09-24
  11. Web search result WebSearch: Columbia Business School DFI advisory board people page listing Brian Olsavsky (result title only; page not read) · 2026-09-24