Neil Lindsay, senior vice president of Amazon Health Services, is leaving his post after five years — capping a 15-year tenure at the tech giant.
As the head of Amazon’s healthcare business, Lindsay oversaw divisions including Amazon Pharmacy, One Medical, Health AI and Health Benefits Connector, growing them from experimental stages into “a business serving millions of customers,” according to Doug Herrington, CEO of Amazon’s Worldwide Stores.
Dr. Roy Schoenberg, his successor, is a physician who founded the telehealth platform Amwell in 2006 and served as its CEO and president until two years ago. Amwell operates in partnership with large healthcare systems, insurers and public health agencies.
Lindsay will step down July 1 and remain in an advisory role through the end of the year. Earlier in his Amazon career, he worked on consumer businesses including Kindle, Devices, Prime and Marketing.
In a public letter to colleagues, Lindsay wrote that he approached his role at Amazon Health Services believing that the company’s tools for simplifying everyday life “could be applied to the one area that remained stubbornly, unnecessarily complex for our customers: healthcare.”
After his departure, Lindsay plans to pursue personal projects and advise outside healthcare companies.
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