Re:Build is developing a suite of design and engineering capabilities to support industrial customers who need solutions for “just-in-time manufacturing” for a range of products, from airplane wings to satellites to medical devices. It has acquired 11 businesses with varying flavors of engineering expertise across the aerospace, clean tech, health, and industrial sectors. In two years, the company has grown to nearly a thousand employees, spanning sites in 10 different states. Under the leadership of Arnone as CEO and Wilke as chair, Re:Build is off to a running start.
They shared a conviction that the future of the country’s economy – and its national security – depends on developing a robust manufacturing sector that creates durable, well-paying jobs while shoring up those vulnerable supply chains. “We realized we hadn’t lost the passion and drive to accomplish the same kinds of things,” he says. Wilke soon discovered that he and Arnone – who had decades of experience leading machine tool companies and overseeing investments in manufacturing ventures at asset management firms – were on the same page, in more ways than one. seems incredibly risky when you enter a pandemic.” Having 85 percent of our pharmaceutical ingredients not made here in the U.S. “Within two months we had laid bare all of the brittleness and problems in U.S. By March of that year, the Covid pandemic was already exposing the economic and security vulnerabilities created by decades of offshoring manufacturing. Re:Build was born in spring 2020, out of conversations between Wilke and his fellow MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) classmate Miles Arnone SM ’93. The venture’s name signals its larger mission: demonstrating that the United States can be a 21st-century manufacturing powerhouse. In March 2021, Wilke stepped down from his post as CEO of Amazon’s Worldwide Consumer business – encompassing the company’s online marketplace, Amazon stores, Prime, 175 fulfillment centers, and Whole Foods – and soon stepped into a new role as chair of Re:Build Manufacturing. His next act is no less ambitious: proving that America can make just about anything.
After more than two decades as part of Amazon’s core leadership team, Jeff Wilke helped transform the way people buy almost everything.
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