Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at Amazon to run its video doorbell unit

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April 5, 2025, 1:00 PM

• •Jamie Siminoff is returning to Amazon as vice president of Ring, Blink, Key and Sidewalk.
• •He previously founded Ring and served as its CEO until 2023.
• •He is replacing Elizabeth Hamren, who took over his role two years ago.

Jamie Siminoff, who founded Ring and started the company in his garage, is back at Amazon after leaving the company as its CEO in 2023. Siminoff joined Amazon when the e-commerce website acquired Ring in 2018, but he left in 2023 and founded another startup that he sold to lock maker Latch Inc. When he left Amazon two years ago, he said that invention was his true passion. Now, he's taking on the role as the vice president in charge of not just Ring, but also Amazon's smart home camera unit Blink, the company's in-garage delivery operations called Key and the Amazon Sidewalk low-bandwith, long-range shared network.

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