Panos Panay is Senior Vice President of Devices, Alexa, and Leo at Amazon, where he oversees the company's consumer hardware and voice assistant businesses. He joined Amazon in 2023 after a long career at Microsoft, where he rose to Chief Product Officer and was the executive most closely associated with the creation and evolution of the Surface line of laptops and tablets. At Microsoft he also had responsibility for Windows and other hardware and software product lines before departing the company. He is known publicly as a frequent on-stage presenter of hardware launch events and for driving the design direction of Surface devices over more than a decade.
Updated 5 August 2026
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