Amazon.com 2002 Annual Report Download - page 27

from March 1999 to September 1999 and General Manager of the Carbon Materials and Technologies
unit from August 1997 to February 1999.
L. Michelle Wilson. Ms. Wilson has served as Senior Vice President, Human Resources, General
Counsel and Secretary since March 2001. She served as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
from July 1999 until March 2001. Ms. Wilson joined Amazon.com in March 1999 as Associate General
Counsel, Mergers and Acquisitions and Finance. Prior to joining Amazon.com, she was a partner in the
law Ñrm of Perkins Coie LLP.
Board of Directors
Name Age Position
JeÅrey P. Bezos ÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏ 39 President, Chief Executive OÇcer and Chairman
of the Board
Tom A. Alberg ÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏ 62 Managing Director of Madrona Venture Group
L. John Doerr ÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏ 51 General Partner, Kleiner Perkins CauÑeld &
Byers
Mark S. Hansen ÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏ 47 Chairman and CEO of Fleming Companies, Inc.
Thomas O. Ryder ÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏ 58 Chairman and CEO of Reader's Digest
Association, Inc.
Patricia Q. Stonesifer ÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏÏ 46 President and Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation
Item 2. Properties
We do not own any real estate. Our principal oÇce facilities in the U.S. are located in several leased
facilities in Seattle, Washington under leases that expire at various times through July 2010. Our corporate
oÇce facilities (excluding customer service oÇce space) in the U.S. comprise a total of 517,000 square
feet. Additionally, we have 333,000 square feet of oÇce space that is subleased or is vacant that we remain
obligated under lease agreements that expire at various times through April 2011.
Our U.S. warehousing and fulÑllment operations are housed in six fulÑllment centers located in New
Castle, Delaware; Fernley, Nevada; CoÅeyville, Kansas; Lexington and Campbellsville, Kentucky; and
Grand Forks, North Dakota. These fulÑllment centers comprise a total of approximately 3.1 million square
feet. Our fulÑllment center leases expire from 2004 through 2015. We also lease six facilities located near
our fulÑllment centers, comprising approximately 1.1 million square feet, which we use for oÅ-site storage
and shipping. These oÅsite storage and shipping facilities are under relatively short-term lease agreements
that expire at various times through May 2003; following expiration, we intend to renew certain of these
leases or consolidate into new oÅsite facilities, or both.
Our U.S. customer service operations occupy approximately 76,000 square feet of oÇce space and are
located in Tacoma, Washington; Huntington, West Virginia; and Grand Forks, North Dakota. The lease
terms of these facilities expire in January 2006, April 2010 and November 2008, respectively.
Our data-center facilities have 120,000 combined square feet (including approximately 40,000 square
feet of vacant space at one facility). These facilities are under leases that expire from 2004 through 2009.
We lease additional properties outside the U.S., including approximately 135,000 square feet of
corporate oÇce space (excluding customer service oÇce space) in Germany, France, Japan and the
United Kingdom (which excludes approximately 40,000 square feet of vacant oÇce space in Germany);
approximately 845,000 combined square feet of available fulÑllment center space in Germany, France and
the United Kingdom (which excludes approximately 200,000 square feet in our United Kingdom facility
that is currently subleased or marketed for sublease); and approximately 66,000 combined square feet of
customer service space in Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom. The fulÑllment centers in Germany,
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