Marc onetto biography

Amazon is renowned for its customer-centric model and rapid growth, evolving from an online bookseller in the 90s to the everything store valued at over $1 trillion today.

While many people were essential to building this company, Marc Onetto was critical in its initial adoption of lean practices within Amazon's industry-leading retail distribution network.

It was 2006, and Jeff Wilke was entering his seventh year working in logistics at Amazon.

While Wilke had completely overhauled Amazon's supply chain in that time, he felt that the overall progress had begun to stall at its fulfillment centers. He wanted to shake things up, so when Jeff Bezos offered him a job as head of Amazon's North American retail division, it was the perfect opportunity. 

The first step would be finding a suitable replacement for the role.

At first, Wilke looked around his logistics cohort, but the more he looked within his team, the more he