Amazon CEO Names Exec to Coveted ‘Shadow’ Role

Re/code: For more than 15 years, one role at Amazon has stood out as perhaps the most coveted: Jeff Bezos’s “shadow,” who acts as an adviser to the CEO. Bezos recently named 15-year Amazon veteran Maria Renz to the role of “shadow” or, more formally, technical adviser to the CEO. Renz was most recently CEO of Quidsi, the parent company of Diapers.com, which Amazon acquired in 2011. She has held a variety of other roles at the company, including president of its MyHabit flash-sale business and VP of its physical media business.