James Dibbo

About James Dibbo

James Dibbo is a finance and operations leader of rapid growth businesses with revenues from $1BN to over $300BN with diverse global experience leading finance, economics, data science and analytics, technology, strategy, supply chain and operations teams for entertainment, e-commerce, retail, hospitality and technology companies serving both consumer and business customers. He is currently CFO for Amazon\'s Global Media and Entertainment division, Amazon Ads and Corporate Development having previously spent 5 years in the Consumer e-commerce business rising from Finance VP for US Hardlines to Worldwide Consumer CFO.James\' passion is working with great people to solve hard problems. Over more than two decades of experience, he has developed a customer centric framework for success based on purpose, passion, people, product and process that supports rapid growth and optimizes for sustainable long term free cash flow. He has helped build profitable multi-billion dollar high growth international businesses and led multiple turnarounds, restructurings, acquisitions and divestments in both public and privately held corporations.

Experience

1. VP & CFO, Global Media & Entertainment, Amazon Ads and Corporate Development

   Amazon

   Jan 2021 — Present

   Following a successful five years supporting the explosive growth of Amazon\'s Consumer business rising to CFO, I was asked to build a new finance and analytics team to support the Advertising business, Corporate Development and the newly established Global Media and Entertainment division with the long term goal to build a world leading advertising, media and entertainment business for Amazon.Amazon Ads is a significant and growing profit driver for the company with $56BN revenue in 2024, an increase of 20% YoY and 3x growth from $19B in 2020.Key entertainment milestones so far include establishing business governance, KPIs and reporting for the new media and entertainment division, creating a 10 year plan, building new scientifically robust metrics for measuring content and customer value, acquiring and integrating MGM Studios, Wondery and Art19 and launching NFL Thursday Night Football on Prime Video.Role includes finance, economics, data science and business analytics for Amazon\'s worldwide entertainment and advertising businesses: Prime Video, Amazon & MGM Studios, Music, Games, Twitch, Audible, Amazon Ads and corporate business development and M&A activity.

Skills

• Business Strategy
• Change Management
• Sales
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Project Planning
• Acquisition Integration
• Mergers
• Competitive Analysis
• Management
• Carve-Outs
• Leadership
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Retail
• Strategic Leadership
• Risk Management
• Financial Reporting
• Management Consulting
• Business Process Improvement
• Forecasting
• Managerial Finance
• Lean Six Sigma
• P&L Management
• Business Development
• Financial Analysis
• Information Technology
• Cash Flow
• Employee Engagement
• Cyber-Security
• Telecommunications
• Analysis
• Financial Modeling
• Pricing
• Business Planning
• Operations Management
• Business Analysis
• Supply Chain Management
• Strategy
• Accounting
• Strategic Planning
• Budgets