Overview

• Marketing and operations shift into Althoff’s commercial organization, with CMO Takeshi Numoto reporting to him while maintaining a direct line to Nadella on select areas.
• Althoff will lead a new cross-functional commercial leadership team spanning engineering, sales, marketing, operations, and finance to sharpen product strategy, governance, and go-to-market execution.
• Nadella said the move frees him and engineering leaders to focus on datacenter expansion, systems architecture, AI science, and product innovation.
• Carolina Dybeck Happe will continue to report to Nadella as she oversees company transformation and partners closely with Althoff.
• Nadella cited Althoff’s nine-year track record building MCAPS, and the shift follows recent commercial consolidations such as September’s unification of AI tool marketplaces into Microsoft Marketplace.