Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shakes up his own job; appoints new CEO to run the company’s biggest business

Microsoft is promoting longtime sales executive Judson Althoff to CEO of its commercial business, a major reorganization that frees up CEO Satya Nadella to focus exclusively on technical work as the company races to dominate artificial intelligence.

Althoff will oversee a newly unified organisation combining sales, marketing and operations for all Microsoft commercial products, including its AI Copilot suite. The move represents one of Microsoft’s most significant leadership changes in years, with Chief Marketing Officer Takeshi Numoto and his team now reporting directly to Althoff.