Brad Smith, the former Intuit CEO and current president of Marshall University, has joined the Amazon board of directors.
The Seattle-based company revealed the news in an SEC filing Wednesday. Smith will also join the board’s Audit Committee.
The West Virginia native served as CEO of business software giant Intuit, maker of TurboTax and Mint, from January 2019 until January 2022. He left to become president of Marshall University, his alma mater.
Smith is a board member at Humana, and sat on the Nordstrom board from 2018 to 2022. He’s the first new Amazon board member since 2021, when the company added former Goldman Sachs exec Edith Cooper.
Smith — not to be confused with Microsoft President Brad Smith — is Amazon’s 12th board director.
Former board member Rosalind Brewer departed in 2021 after taking the CEO job at Walgreens. Thomas Ryder retired that same year.
The board currently has seven men and five women. Amazon’s other board members are founder Jeff Bezos; CEO Andy Jassy; Jamie Gorelick; Daniel Huttenlocher; Judith McGrath; Indra Nooyi; Jonathan Rubinstein; Thomas Ryder; Patricia Stonesifer; and Wendell Weeks.
Amazon recently assigned new responsibilities to board members. Gorelick is the new lead director; Rubinstein chairs the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, and Cooper chairs the Leadership Development and Compensation Committee.
