Microsoft dome changes: Satya Nadella has decided to ascend to a Microsoft manager A CEO y give him part of his tasks To have more time to dedicate yourself to preparing the company for the future. So, Judson Althoffthat until now he was vice president and commercial responsible for Microsoft, It will now be CEO of your business division for companies.
With this change, Satya Nadella will continue to be the Microsoft CEO, but from now on it will have more time to perform more technical work in the company. The change has been announced to its employees Nadella himself through an internal statement.
In it, Nadella has pointed out that the step he has taken is due to the need to make Microsoft reinvent into the framework of the AI era, for which it is convenient to “gather sales, marketing, operations and engineering to boost growth and reinforce our position as the preferred partner for transformation with AI”.
Althoff has been at the head of the company’s sales organization globally during the last nine years. Among other things, it has been responsible for developing the Microsoft division of solutions for partners and customers (MCAPS). From now on he will also be responsible for the operations and marketing teams responsible for facilitating the sale of Microsoft services and software to companies. Of course, you will not have under your responsibility the engineering teams that develop them.
According to Nadella, «Bringing operations to the commercial division allows us to reinforce the feedback loop between what customers need and how we provide it and support them. In addition, Judson will be at the head of a new commercial leadership team that adds engineering, sales, marketing, operations and finance«.
Nadella has also pointed out that this step «It will allow me both and those responsible for engineering to be more focused on our most ambitious technical work, in the development of data centers, systems architecture, AI science and product innovation, to place us at the forefront with intensity and rhythm in this change of generational platforms. This is not just evolution, it is reinvention, both for each of us on a professional level and for Microsoft«.
Althoff thus becomes another CEO inside Microsoft, joining those of Gaming, Phil Spencer, and Ia, Mustafa Suleyman. However, this step places Althoff as a second from Nadella, especially since it will be in charge of the main way Microsoft has to get money from its company clients, even the most important.
This change has raised to many the possibility that Nadella is preparing her succession at the head of Microsoft, but everything seems to indicate that it is not, but that it is more than a movement so that Nadella can count on time for technical workand to design the future of the company, instead of choosing to retire in the short term.
