Joy Covey, Amazon.com top executive in the early days, 50 died

Joy Covey, Amazon.com top executive in the early days, 50 dies

An executive who played a key role died Wednesday Mateo County, Calif. he was 50 .


Was previously Chief Financial Officer of happiness Covey Amazon.com .
Police said the accident occurred along Skyline Boulevard to the surface OnTrac, Amazon and other online retailers by making use of a shipping service to deliver a minivan, on a side street is changing . Ms. Covey was declared dead at the scene . Van driver was not charged .

Amazon 's first as Chief Financial Officer , Ms. Covey and helped take the company public to ignore Wall Street and investing for the future planning Amazon was a liberal -minded lawyer . This day is considered radical , a $ 61 billion behemoth retail and entertainment development in the Amazon was based .

In its early days , Amazon staffing agencies to inform it on non- traditional hires prided " send us your evil . " Ms. Covey was not a traditional background . He dropped out of high school at 15 and worked as a grocery clerk . She said that she did not fit in the Cal State Fresno and later attended Harvard Law School

"We want to go for lunch, his favorite 17th century poets and people will talk about , and I will be thinking , 'I can name five poets ? Any century "

But long after joining Amazon in 1996 , his annual income was less than $ 20 million when he thrived. There is a need to expand the company sold off Wall Street . The company 's initial offering price of $ 18 with May 14, 1997 , went public . Share this week was sold for more than $ 312 . His own wealth is estimated at more than $ 200 million .

Happiness Maurice C. Dianne Covey Covey, a doctor and former Zone de Vries, a nurse , in Boston , April 25, 1963 was born . She grew up in San Mateo and Woodside, California, lived in

A red- hot Internet company as senior women , Ms. Covey attention , including a profile in Forbes magazine headlined a big deal , drew "a real Amazon . "

Com boom was ending as he left Amazon in 2000 . Surviving a young son , Tyler said.