Overview
- Marketing and operations will report to Althoff as Microsoft forms a unified commercial organization.
- Satya Nadella plans to concentrate on datacenter expansion, systems architecture, AI science and product innovation.
- Althoff will chair a new commercial leadership team that includes leaders from engineering, sales, marketing, operations and finance.
- The restructuring follows the recent consolidation of enterprise AI storefronts into a single Microsoft Marketplace.
- Althoff joined Microsoft from Oracle in 2013 and most recently served as chief commercial officer leading global sales.