Amazon Web Services VP of AI, Matt Wood, is leaving the company

Matt Wood, the Amazon Web Services vice president who was a longtime champion of the cloud giant’s machine learning and artificial intelligence initiatives, is leaving the company after 15 years.

Wood announced his exit from Amazon in a LinkedIn post Wednesday morning. An Amazon spokesperson confirmed his departure to GeekWire. There’s no word yet on a potential successor for Wood in the role.

He hinted in his post that he’ll be surfacing elsewhere soon, writing, “I’m excited to continue bringing reinvention, transformation, and the future to more organizations in my next role (more to come on that; stay tuned).”

Wood was involved in Amazon’s machine learning and business intelligence initiatives for many years, long before the rise of generative artificial intelligence. He became AWS VP of AI in September 2022, just before OpenAI’s ChatGPT showed the potential of generative AI, spurring AWS and others to scramble to catch up.

Most recently, Wood was involved in the rollout of Amazon Q, the company’s generative AI assistant for business intelligence and software development.

Wood’s departure is the latest in a series of executive changes in Amazon’s cloud division, coming about five months after Adam Selipsky stepped down as AWS CEO, succeeded by Matt Garman in the role.