Another Amazon Executive Has Landed at Airbnb

After ten months almost of searching, Airbnb has hired Dave Stephenson, an Amazon VP, as its Chief Financial Officer, making him the second Amazon exec to join Airbnb this year, following Greg Greeley, who is president of Homes.

Stephenson spent 17 years as Amazon, and was also the CFO of Amazon’s Worldwide Consumer Organization. He was responsible for all global website sales. He was also had executive roles at Big Fish Games from 2011 to 2013.

In a blog post, the company wrote that Stephenson “oversaw gross merchandise sales in excess of $250 billion and helped the business achieve double digit revenue and operating profit growth over the past four years” at Amazon.

“Dave is one of the best financial operators in the world and there’s no one better prepared to serve as our CFO,” said CEO Brian Chesky in a statement. “I’m proud of everything we’ve achieved, but Airbnb is just getting started. In the years ahead, Dave will be Airbnb’s quarterback for long-term growth, driving us to be even more efficient and leverage what makes Airbnb unique to create new businesses and continue to expand.”

Former Amazon CFO Tom Szkutak remarked, “I had the pleasure of working with Dave during his long and distinguished career at Amazon. Dave successfully led the Finance function for many diverse and rapidly growing areas of the company including Retail, Marketplace and AWS, and built outstanding Finance teams along the way. Dave’s high judgement, strong business partnering skills, and exceptional leadership capabilities position him well for success in his new role as CFO of Airbnb.”

Airbnb is one of the big anticipated IPOs for 2019.