Airbnb snags top Amazon executive in charge of Prime business

San Francisco

ONE of Amazon.com Inc's longtime executives is leaving the company to join Airbnb Inc, filling a key position as the home-renting business focuses on growth in Latin America and Asia.

Greg Greeley - who was vice-president of Amazon Prime and is credited with building the delivery service into one of the e-commerce industry's most successful programmes, with an estimated 90 million members in the United States - is joining Airbnb, it said on Tuesday.