The year Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella appointed new CEO to run the company’s biggest business with the aim to focus on …
Microsoft turned fifty-year-old this year. In the year Microsoft turned 50, CEO Satya Nadella announced one of the biggest-ever leadership overhaul and some big hires. Microsoft hired former Meta engineering boss Jay Parikh. The company also and elevated senior executives, including commercial head Judson Althoff and Ryan Roslansky, chief executive of LinkedIn. In October 2025, Microsoft is promoting longtime sales executive Judson Althoff to CEO of its commercial business, a major reorganization that frees up CEO Nadella to focus exclusively on technical work as the company races to dominate Artificial Intelligence (AI) landscape. The restructuring puts Althoff in charge of what Nadella called Microsoft’s “most important growth engine”, as he now leads marketing, sales, support and operations, which includes setting priorities for its engineering teams to match customer needs.
