Amazon Executive Tom Phillips Killed in Plane Crash

According to MSNBC, Tom Phillips began working at Amazon.com this year supervising the Windows Elastic Computer Cloud service. Phillips earlier worked at Microsoft from 1992 to 2010, according to his LinkedIn account.

The accident involving our friend

"We were saddened to learn of the accident involving our friend and former colleague Tom Phillips," said Lou Gellos, a Microsoft spokesman told Geekwire. "In near two decades at Microsoft, he was a respected leader across many different businesses. Our thoughts are with his family, and his many friends both here and at Amazon.com."

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