Amazon.com Marketing Chief to Leave in March

Amazon.com Inc.’s marketing and merchandising chief, David Risher, will leave in March as the firm reorganizes into five divisions. Amazon.com will merge its U.S. and international operations and divide them into groups overseeing application software, retailing and marketing, services and business development, operations and customer service, and platform software and architecture.

Risher joined the Seattle-based company from Microsoft Corp. in February 1997. He couldn’t be reached to comment.

Amazon.com shares fell 10 cents to $8.95 on Nasdaq.