Judson Althoff to lead combined commercial teams as Microsoft ramps up AI, data centre and product innovation

Judson Althoff to lead combined commercial teams as Microsoft ramps up AI, data centre and product innovation

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Satya Nadella realigns senior leadership to focus on core technical priorities  

Alice Chambers

By Alice Chambers |


Microsoft is reorganising its commercial leadership to better support enterprise customers and free technical teams, including chairman and CEO Satya Nadella, to focus on data centre expansion, systems architecture, AI science and product innovation.

Judson Althoff has been named CEO of Microsoft’s commercial business, leading a new team that will bring together sales, marketing, operations and engineering.

Takeshi Numoto will continue as chief marketing officer under Althoff while also reporting to Nadella on corporate brand, consumer marketing and business planning. Microsoft’s operations organisation will move under Althoff to tighten customer feedback loops, while Carolina Dybeck Happe, executive vice president and chief operating officer, remains focused on company-wide transformation.

“This isn’t just evolution, it’s reinvention,” said Nadella. “Our success depends on enabling commercial and public sector customers and partners to combine their human capital with new AI capabilities to change the frontier of how they operate.”

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