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Mr. Blackburn has served as Senior Vice President, Business Development, since April 2006. I’m confident this team will continue to deliver amazing content, products, and experiences for customers. from Dartmouth, majoring in government/economics. He’s pictured below with Bezos and actress Michelle Williams at a 2016 ‘Manchester at the Sea‘ party. Prior to joining Amazon.com in 1998, Mr. Blackburn was Assistant Vice President at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell. Other longtime Amazon execs that went on sabbaticals include early Kindle leader Steve Kessel, who returned to head up the company’s physical retail efforts, and Diego Piacentini, who went to work in Rome for the Italian prime minister but did not return to Amazon as planned. Now in its 18th season, Put Some Colour In Your Life is a television series that spans the globe. He is married to Anne Fleischli Blackburn '91. It’s never easy to find a good time for a break when always scaling so fast, but now feels like the right time for me and my family. In this fine art TV show episode, R. Geoffrey Blackburn is interviewed by Put Some Colour In Your Life host and Master Artist, Graeme Stevenson. Update: Amazon’s board approved a leave of absence for Blackburn on Thursday for one year beginning in the first quarter of 2020. Blackburn's leave is significant, given how he's been one of the longest-serving executives at the company.
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