Overview

• Satya Nadella named Chief Commercial Officer Judson Althoff CEO of Microsoft's commercial business on Oct. 1.
• Sales, marketing and operations are being combined under Althoff to accelerate go-to-market for AI offerings.
• Chief Marketing Officer Takeshi Numoto will report to Althoff while retaining a direct line to Nadella for company-wide brand, consumer marketing, planning and business models.
• Microsoft’s operations organization will move under Althoff, and COO Carolina Dybeck Happe will continue to report to Nadella.
• Nadella will concentrate on datacenter buildout, systems architecture, AI science and product innovation, following recent steps like unifying AI tool stores into the Microsoft Marketplace.