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Ash Hafez currently serves as the Director and Head of Pricing & Promotions Science at Amazon, a position held since March 2024, leading retail pricing and promotions science initiatives. Prior to this role, Ash was the VP and Head of AI & Science at Equilibrium Energy from 2022 to 2024, where responsibilities included building autonomous machine learning and optimization models for industrial-sized batteries. Ash's experience at Amazon also includes leadership as the Head of ML Science for Worldwide Retail Pricing from 2020 to 2022, focusing on machine learning initiatives for pricing competitiveness. Earlier career highlights include serving as a Senior Director of AI & Data Science at Tempus, Inc., and co-founding InPhaseBlue LLC, with initiatives in data visualization and machine learning. Ash's foundational career includes roles as a Quantitative High Frequency Trader and as a Director at Merrill Lynch, managing bond trading technology. Educational background includes a Bachelor of Science with First Class Honors in Computer Science and Information Technology from The University of Western Australia.
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Amazon is an American multinational technology and vast Internet-based enterprise that sells books, music, movies, housewares, electronics, toys, and many other goods, either directly or as the middleman between other retailers and Amazon.com's millions of customers. More specifically, they are a company that focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. Their mission is to be Earth's most customer-centric company. Its actions, goals, projects, programs, and inventions begin and end with the customer top of mind. Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos. Initially an online marketplace for books, it has expanded into a multitude of product categories: a strategy that has earned it the moniker The Everything Store. It has multiple subsidiaries including Amazon Web Services (cloud computing), Zoox (autonomous vehicles), Kuiper Systems (satellite Internet), and Amazon Lab126 (computer hardware R&D). Its other subsidiaries include Ring, Twitch, IMDb, and Whole Foods Market. Amazon has earned a reputation as a disruptor of well-established industries through technological innovation and mass scale. As of 2021, it is the world's largest online retailer and marketplace. In 2021, it surpassed Walmart as the world's largest retailer outside of China, driven in large part by its paid subscription plan, Amazon Prime, which has over 200 million subscribers worldwide. It is the second-largest private employer in the United States. Amazon also distributes a variety of downloadable and streaming content through its Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Music, Twitch, and Audible units. It publishes books through its publishing arm, Amazon Publishing, film and television content through Amazon Studios, and has been the owner of film and television studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer since March 2022. It also produces consumer electronics—most notably, Kindle e-readers, Echo devices, Fire tablets, and Fire TVs.