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Ron Benson is an accomplished technology executive with extensive experience in engineering and machine learning. Currently serving as the Director of Machine Learning at Amazon since April 2017, Ron has previously held key leadership roles, including VP Engineering at Imgur.com and Walmart.com, where responsibilities encompassed search and customer personalization. Ron also contributed significantly to OneRiot as VP Engineering, delivering innovative real-time search products. As CEO and Founder of Morphlix.com, Ron spearheaded the startup's development in video on demand. Additional experience includes senior engineering roles at Bea Systems, Infotropia, and Critical Point, as well as founding Vocal Point, Inc. Ron holds a PhD in Computational and Neural Systems from Caltech and dual degrees in Electrical Engineering and Math and German from the University of Colorado Boulder.
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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.