Amazon’s top health exec is stepping down, will be replaced by Amwell co-founder

Neil Lindsay, who joined Amazon more than 15 years ago, has served as the senior vice president of Amazon Health Services since 2021. AHS spans Amazon’s online pharmacy service and primary care chain One Medical, among other initiatives.

Dr. Roy Schoenberg will succeed Lindsay on July 1, Amazon’s worldwide retail chief Doug Herrington wrote in a memo posted to the company’s website. Lindsay will stay on as an advisor at Amazon until the end of the year, and plans to continue advising companies on health-care technology.

In addition to cofounding and leading Amwell, Schoenberg brings “a rare combination of clinical expertise, technology vision, and experience building health-care businesses at scale,” Herrington wrote.

Amazon has for years been on a mission to crack the multi-trillion dollar U.S. health-care industry, which is notoriously complex and inefficient. Its first big splash came in 2018 with the acquisition of online pharmacy PillPack for about $750 million, which led to the creation of its own offering called Amazon Pharmacy.

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