Microsoft names CEO to run commercial business, Nadella to focus on tech

(Reuters) –Microsoft (MSFT) Head Commercial Director Judson Althoff will play an expanded role as the CEO of the commercial enterprise and will release the company chief Satya Nadella to focus more on the technical side of the work in the search for the technology giant’s AI race.

Althoff will lead Microsoft CEO Nadella what it calls a new organization that will combine sales, marketing and operations.

Nadella said that the restructuring itself and other engineering leaders will help us “the highest ambition technical focus to our laser focus” throughout the “Datacenter Buildout, System architecture, AI Science and product innovation.

Althoff will also be the chief of a new commercial leadership team, including engineering, sales, marketing, operation and finance leaders.

“When creating a new border and executing perfectly in both, we are in the middle of a tectonic AI platform shift that requires us to manage and expand our commercial business on a scale.” He said.

In 2021, Microsoft brought together its global sales and marketing organization and worldwide commercial businesses in a single combined organization directed by Althoff, who joined the company as the president of Microsoft North America in 2013.

Last month, Microsoft said he had combined separate market places for him. AI Tools It was directed to an offer called “Microsoft Marketplace” to businesses.

AI tools designed to fulfill tasks on behalf of human users in the so-called “representatives”, which previously used Azure Cloud Computing in a market.

(Reporting by Juby Babu at Mexico City; Organization by Sahal Muhammad)