Amazon.com appoints Scott Cook to its board of directors.SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 16, 1997--Amazon.com, earth's biggest bookstore, announced that Scott D. Cook, co-founder and chairman of Intuit, Inc., has been appointed to its board of directors. "We are delighted and honored to have Scott Cook Scott Cook (Intuit, Inc.), HBS 1976, started his career at Procter & Gamble, where he learned about product development, market research, and marketing. He soon began using the insights he was learning there to look for an idea for a company of his own. join the Amazon.com board of directors. No one is better at using technology to serve customers than Scott Cook," said Jeff Bezos Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born January 12, 1964 , Albuquerque ) is the founder, president, chief executive officer, and chairman of the board of Amazon.com. Bezos, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University, worked as a financial analyst for D. E. Shaw & Co. , founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Amazon.com. "His experience building the preeminent financial software company in the face of fierce competition will be of great benefit to Amazon.com." Since co-founding Intuit in 1983, Cook has been responsible for driving Intuit's strategy to improve the financial lives of consumers, small businesses and financial providers. Intuit develops and markets Quicken, the leading personal finance software; TurboTax, the best-selling tax preparation software; QuickBooks, the most popular small business accounting software; and Quicken Financial Network (http://www.qfn.com), where people can access the best the Web offers in financial information, news, products and services. Prior to co-founding Intuit, Mr. Cook was a consultant for Bain & Company, a strategy consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a , and a brand manager for Procter & Gamble. He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics and economics from the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission and an MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration from Harvard University Harvard University, mainly at Cambridge, Mass., including Harvard College, the oldest American college. Harvard College Harvard College, originally for men, was founded in 1636 with a grant from the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. . Founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994, Amazon.com, Inc. is headquartered in Seattle and is privately held. Amazon.com is the leading bookstore on the Web, with the world's largest selection of books. The Internet-only bookstore offers a catalog of 1.1 million titles, easy-to-search and browse features, e-mail services, Web-based credit card payment and direct shipping to customers. Amazon.com's name pays homage to the Amazon River Amazon River Portuguese Rio Amazonas River, northern South America. It is the largest river in the world in volume and area of drainage basin; only the Nile River of eastern and northeastern Africa exceeds it in length. . Just as the Amazon River is more than six times the size of the next largest river in the world, Amazon.com's catalog is more than six times the size of the largest conventional bookstore. -0- Intuit, Quicken, QuickBooks and TurboTax are registered trademarks of Intuit Inc. Amazon.com is a trademark of Amazon.com, Inc. CONTACT: Connors Communications Jennifer Kohn 212/807-7500 jennifer@connors.com or Amazon.com Jennifer Cast 206/346-2853 jennifer@amazon.com |
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