Satya Nadella has overhauled Microsoft’s senior leadership this year with a raft of changes intended to keep the 50-year-old software giant ahead in the artificial intelligence race after it restructured its relationship with OpenAI.
The Microsoft chief has made big hires such as former Meta engineering boss Jay Parikh, and elevated senior executives including commercial head Judson Althoff and Ryan Roslansky, chief executive of LinkedIn, which Microsoft owns.
Nadella is responding to greater competition from rivals in the AI market and seeking to speed up progress on building Microsoft’s own AI models, and enhancing its coding tools and applications, according to more than half a dozen current and former Microsoft executives.