Rick Dalzell

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Rick Dalzell is the Chief Information Officer/Divisional Senior Executive Vice President of Amazon.com in Seattle, Washington. In charge of technology, software and services at the Internet marketing behemoth, Dazell has been a corporate officer at Amazon since August 1997, when he was named Vice President (VP) and Chief Information Officer (CIO). He was styled a Senior VP in October 2000 and was named to his present title, Senior VP, Worldwide Architecture and Platform Software & CIO, in November 2001.

Prior to joining Amazon.com in 1997, Mr. Dalzell was Vice President of Information Systems at Wal-Mart starting in 1990. At Walmart he developed their datawarehouse strategy from the ground up giving their suppliers direct access to demographic sales information. From 1987 to 1990, Mr. Dalzell acted as the Business Development Manager for E-Systems, Inc. Prior to joining E-Systems, Inc. he served seven years in the United States Army as a teleprocessing officer. Mr. Dalzell received a B.S. in Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point.