
Next, after a brief stint as a product manager at the Banker’s Trust (now acquired by Deutsche Bank), he accepted a position at D. He went on to study electrical engineering and computer science at Princeton University, graduating summa cum laude in 1986.Īfter graduating he began working at fintech startup, Fitel, where he’d move up to become director of customer services. However, Jacklyn later remarried Mike Bezos, a Cuban engineer and had their surnames legally altered to Bezos.Īfter completing his grades four through six at the River Oaks Elementary School in Houston, he attended the University of Florida’s Student Science Training Program and graduated as high school valedictorian, a National Merit Scholar, and a Silver Knight Award recipient in 1982. Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen was born on January 12, 1964, in Albuquerque, New Mexico to Ted Jorgensen and a then-teenage Jacklyn Bezos (née Gide), a high school student.
