Amazon executive Jay Carney to join Airbnb as communications head

Jay Carney, the Amazon.com Inc government who vastly expanded its lobbying and public affairs operation after a stint as White House press secretary, is becoming a member of Airbnb Inc as coverage and communications head, the house rental startup mentioned on Friday.

Carney, who labored at Amazon for seven years as Senior Vice President of World Company Affairs, will begin at Airbnb in September and report back to co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky. He will probably be primarily based in Washington.

In an e mail to Amazon’s senior management workforce, seen by Reuters, CEO Andy Jassy mentioned the web retailer would search instantly for a alternative, and Carney’s public-policy lieutenants would report back to Basic Counsel David Zapolsky. Drew Herdener, Amazon’s prime communications official, will now report back to Jassy.

Carney mentioned he was grateful to have labored at “a company that mattered and had constructive impression,” and that the groups he leaves behind are in “excellent palms,” in line with an e mail he wrote to Amazon’s World Company Affairs group, seen by Reuters.

Earlier than becoming a member of Amazon, Carney was White Home press secretary for President Barack Obama.

Airbnb has confronted a wide range of regulatory challenges. In January, for example, U.S. lawmakers raised considerations in regards to the firm’s enterprise actions in China’s Xinjiang area.

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