Who Controls Amazon?

Amazon.com, Inc.:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com

Officers:
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-govmanage

Jeffrey P. Bezos(Ashkenazi Jew/Northern European) – President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-govBio&ID=69376

Jeffrey M. Blackburn(Ashkenazi Jew) – Senior Vice President, Business Development
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-govBio&ID=156698

Sebastian J. Gunningham(Northern European) – Senior Vice President, Seller Services
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-govBio&ID=163012

Andrew R. Jassy(Ashkenazi Jew) – Senior Vice President, Amazon Web Services
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-govBio&ID=156701

Steven Kessel(Ashkenazi Jew) – Senior Vice President
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-govBio&ID=156703

Diego Piacentini(Southern European) – Senior Vice President, International Consumer Business
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-govBio&ID=69389

Shelley L. Reynolds(Northern European) – Vice President, Worldwide Controller and Principal Accounting Officer
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-govBio&ID=164317

Thomas J. Szkutak(Ashkenazi Jew) – Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-govBio&ID=85860

H. Brian Valentine(Ashkenazi Jew) – Senior Vice President, Ecommerce Platform
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-govBio&ID=156737

Jeffrey A. Wilke(Ashkenazi Jew) – Senior Vice President, Consumer Business
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-govBio&ID=69391

David A. Zapolsky(Ashkenazi Jew) – Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-govBio&ID=69392

Directors:
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-govmanage

Jeffrey P. Bezos(Ashkenazi Jew/Northern European) – President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-govBio&ID=69393

Tom A. Alberg(Northern European) – Madrona Venture Group
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-govBio&ID=69394

John Seely Brown(Northern European) – Visiting Scholar and Advisor to the Provost at USC
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-govBio&ID=117417

William B. (Bing) Gordon(Ashkenazi Jew) – Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-govBio&ID=93092

Jamie S. Gorelick(Ashkenazi Jew) – Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-govBio&ID=219511

Alain Monié(Ashkenazi Jew) – Ingram Micro Inc.
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-govBio&ID=184329

Jonathan Rubinstein(Ashkenazi Jew) – Former Chairman and CEO, Palm, Inc.
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-govBio&ID=207609

Thomas O. Ryder(Northern European) – Former Chairman and CEO, Reader’s Digest Association, Inc.
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-govBio&ID=85861

Patricia Q. Stonesifer(Jewish spouse: Michael Kinsley) – Smithsonian Institution
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-govBio&ID=69397

Summary:
Of the eleven(11) Amazon.com executives, eight(8) are Jews. This is a numerical representation of 73%. Of the nine(9) Amazon.com directors, six(6) are Jews or have Jewish spouses. This is a numerical representation of 67%. Jews are approximately 2% of the U.S. population.* Therefore Jews and spouses of Jews are over-represented among the Amazon.com executives by a factor of 36.5 times(3,650 percent) and over-represented among the Amazon.com directors by a factor of 33.5 times(3,350 percent).

* Jewish Population of the United States by State
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/usjewpop.html