Microsoft Corporation Org chart
This Microsoft Corporation org chart highlights the company’s organizational structure and leadership team, including key executives such as Satya Nadella (Chairman & CEO) , Mustafa Suleyman (CEO, Microsoft AI) , and Carolina Dybeck Happe (COO) . It provides a clear overview of the leadership team’s roles and how they work together to achieve organizational goals and ensure effective management across all functions.
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Microsoft Corporation Leadership Team
Executives
Profile Summary
Satya Nadella is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft. Before being named CEO in February 2014, Nadella held leadership roles in both enterprise and consumer businesses across the company. Joining Microsoft in 1992, he quickly became known as a leader who could span a breadth of technologies and businesses to transform some of Microsoft’s biggest product offerings. Most recently, Nadella was executive vice president of Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise group. In this role he led the transformation to the cloud infrastructure and services business, which outperformed the market and took share from competition. Previously, Nadella led R&D for the Online Services Division and was vice president of the Microsoft Business Division. Before joining Microsoft, Nadella was a member of the technology staff at Sun Microsystems. Originally from Hyderabad, India, Nadella lives in Bellevue, Washington. He earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Mangalore University, a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Chicago. Nadella serves on the board of trustees to Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and his alma mater the University of Chicago, as well as the Starbucks board of directors.
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Mustafa Suleyman
CEO, Microsoft AI
Mustafa Suleyman is a prominent figure in the field of artificial intelligence and technology, currently serving as CEO of Microsoft AI since March 2024. With a wealth of experience, Mustafa has held influential positions such as Venture Partner at Greylock and Non Executive Director at The Economist. Previously, Mustafa co-founded and led Inflection AI as CEO until March 2024 and was Vice President of AI Product Management & AI Policy at Google from January 2020 to January 2022. As a co-founder of DeepMind, Mustafa held the roles of Head of Applied AI and Chief Product Officer from June 2010 to January 2020. Early in the career trajectory, Mustafa co-founded Reos Partners, where contributions as Partner were made from 2007 to 2010.
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Carolina Dybeck Happe
COO
Carolina Dybeck Happe serves as the Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer at Microsoft, bringing extensive financial leadership experience to the role. Previously, Carolina held prominent positions such as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at GE, and Chief Financial Officer at A.P. Moller - Maersk. With a robust background at ASSA ABLOY Group, Carolina's tenure included roles as Chief Financial Officer and Deputy CEO, alongside various CFO positions in the EMEA and DACH regions. Education includes a Master of Science in Business and Economics from Uppsala University and additional studies at IMD.
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Amy Coleman
Chief People Officer
Amy Coleman serves as the Chief Human Resources Officer at Medio Systems and has also contributed as a Consultant within the HR/Equity Practice at Curtis Consulting Group. With expertise in human resources and equity practices, Amy Coleman brings valuable knowledge and experience to organizational development and human capital management.
Ralph Haupter
President, Global Small, Medium Enterprises And Channel
Ralph Haupter has a strong background in the tech industry, having held various leadership positions at Microsoft and IBM. Currently serving as President of Microsoft EMEA and President of Microsoft Asia, Ralph oversees numerous subsidiaries, employees, and partners in the region. Haupter is particularly passionate about the role of technology, especially AI, in Asia's digital growth. Prior to their current roles, Ralph led Microsoft's operations in Greater China and Germany. Educated at Berufsakademie Stuttgart and Export Akademie Reutlingen, Ralph holds Master's degrees in international business.
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IBM
Samer Abu-Ltaif
President, Microsoft CEMA
As President of Microsoft Middle East and Africa (MEA), Samer Abu Ltaif leads Microsoft’s operations in an area that represents one of Microsoft’s fastest growing and most diverse markets. Microsoft MEA’s 3 000 team members span 40 offices covering 79 countries across three continents with more than 18 000 partners. In this role, Abu Ltaif is responsible for the company’s strategy and advancing its position as an innovative industry leader, a socially responsible enterprise and a recognised, diverse, inclusive and great place to work. He took up this role in February 2017. Abu Ltaif joined Microsoft in 2004 and has held many senior roles within the organisation. Most recently, he was the General Manager of Microsoft Gulf, where he led landmark Microsoft initiatives aimed at empowering governments and citizens through innovation, revolutionising education, stimulating SME growth and entrepreneurship; all to enhance the markets global competitiveness and modernisation. Abu Ltaif studied computer science at the American University of Beirut. He is based in Dubai with his wife and two children. In his spare time, Abu Ltaif enjoys water skiing, swimming and spending time with his family.
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Brad Smith
President & Vice Chair
As Microsoft’s president and vice chair, Brad Smith leads a team of more than 1,500 business, legal and corporate affairs professionals located in 54 countries and operating in more than 120 nations. He plays a key role in spearheading the company’s work on critical issues involving the intersection of technology and society, including cybersecurity, privacy, artificial intelligence, environmental sustainability, human rights, immigration and philanthropy. In his recent bestselling book, coauthored with Microsoft’s Carol Ann Browne, Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age, Smith urges the tech sector to assume more responsibility and calls for governments to move faster to address the challenges that new technologies are creating. The New York Times has called Smith “a de facto ambassador for the technology industry at large” and The Australian Financial Review has described him as “one of the technology industry’s most respected figures.” He has testified numerous times before the U.S. Congress and other governments on these key policy issues. Smith joined Microsoft in 1993, first spending three years in Paris leading the legal and corporate affairs team in Europe. In 2002, he was named Microsoft’s general counsel and spent the following decade leading work to resolve the company’s antitrust controversies with governments around the world and companies across the tech sector. Over the past decade, Smith has spearheaded the company’s work to advance privacy protection for Microsoft customers and the rights of DREAMers and other immigrants, including bringing multiple lawsuits against the U.S. government on these issues. Prior to joining Microsoft, Smith was an associate and then partner at the law firm of Covington and Burling, where he is still remembered as the first attorney in the long history of the firm to insist (in 1986) on having a personal computer on his desk as a condition for accepting a job offer. In addition to his work at Microsoft, Smith is active in several civic organizations and in the broader technology industry. He has served on the Netflix board of directors since 2015 and chairs the board of directors of both Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) and the Washington State Opportunity Scholarship program. Smith grew up in Appleton, Wisconsin, where Green Bay was the big city next door. He attended Princeton University. He earned his J.D. from Columbia University Law School and studied international law and economics at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland.
Andrea Della Mattea
President, APAC
Andrea Della Mattea's work experience includes various leadership roles in prominent organizations. Andrea started their career at Software Spectrum Inc, where they held the position of VP Nth America Sales & Marketing as well as Managing Director APAC from 1996 to 2006. Following that, they joined Insight as SVP Nth America & APAC from 2006 to 2007, and later became the SVP, Managing Director APAC from 2008 to 2017. In 2017, they joined Microsoft as the President Asia Pacific. Throughout their career, they have also served in advisory roles, such as being an Advisory Board member for James Cook University Singapore and a Foundation Member of the Advisory Board for Habitat for Humanity Australia. Andrea is currently an Independent Non-Executive Director at HSBC and an Advisory Council Member at Australian Alumni Singapore. Additionally, Andrea Della Mattea has been recognized as an Outstanding Alumni by James Cook University and has served as a Non-Executive Director for Meals on Wheels. Andrea Della Mattea's education history begins with a Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) degree with First Class Honors from James Cook University. The specific start and end years for this degree are not provided. In 2014, Andrea attended the Australian Institute of Company Directors to study Mergers & Acquisitions. In 2015, Andrea pursued executive education at both Harvard Business School and the Australian Institute of Company Directors, with a focus on general executive education and company directorship, respectively. In 2016, Andrea completed an executive education program at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Most recently, in 2022, Andrea received an Honorary Doctorate in Engineering (HonDEng) from James Cook University. No end year is specified for this degree.
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Insight Enterprises
Jeff Teper
President, Collaborative Apps & Platforms
Jeff Teper is the President of Collaborative Apps & Platforms. He joined Microsoft in 1992 and runs design, product, and engineering for services such as the core Office applications Word and Excel, the OneDrive file-storage system, and the collaboration platform SharePoint. In February 2020, Microsoft announced that he would take over Microsoft Teams, effective February 25th, upon Brian MacDonald's retirement.
Kevin Scott
CTO & EVP, Technology & Research
Kevin Scott is CTO and executive vice president of Technology & Research, and the chief technology officer of Microsoft. He is an innovative leader driving the technical vision to achieve Microsoft’s mission, and is passionate about creating technologies that benefit everyone. He focuses on helping make the company an exceptional place for engineers, developers and researchers to work and learn. Scott’s 20-year career in technology spans both academia and industry as researcher, engineer and leader. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was senior vice president of engineering and operations at LinkedIn, where he helped build the technology and engineering team and led the company through an IPO and six years of rapid growth. Earlier in his career, he oversaw mobile ads engineering at Google, including the integration of Google’s $750 million acquisition of AdMob. At AdMob, Scott was responsible for engineering and operations for the world’s leading platform for mobile monetization. Before joining AdMob, Scott held numerous leadership positions at Google in search and ads engineering and helped with the company’s early efforts establishing remote engineering centers. Scott is the host of the podcast Behind the Tech, which features interviews with technology heroes who have helped create the tech industry of today. He also authored the book “Reprogramming the American Dream,” which explores how artificial intelligence can be realistically used to serve the interests of everyone, not just the privileged few. As co-inventor on several patents around search and information extraction, he has also authored several publications on dynamic binary rewriting that collectively have been cited hundreds of times in other scholarly research. He has received a Google Founder’s Award, an Intel Ph.D. Fellowship and an ACM Recognition of Service Award. He is an adviser to several Silicon Valley startups, an active angel investor, the founder of the non-profit organization Behind the Tech, a member of the Anita Borg Institute’s board of trustees and a trustee of The Scott Foundation. He also serves on the Advisory Council for Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (Stanford HAI) and the Leadership Council for Harvard’s Technology for Public Purpose (TAPP) program. Scott holds an M.S. in computer science from Wake Forest University, a B.S. in computer science from Lynchburg College, and has completed most of his Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Virginia.
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Stellantis
Relativity
Pinterest
Charlie Bell
EVP, Security, Compliance, Identity & Management
Charlie Bell joined Microsoft as EVP of a newly formed Cybersecurity organization within the company in September 2021. Prior to that, Bell served as SVP of Amazon Web Services. Bell was at Amazon since 1998.
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Kathleen Hogan
Executive Vice President, Office of Strategy and Transformation
As executive vice president, Office of Strategy and Transformation, Kathleen Hogan is focused on defining Microsoft’s overarching corporate strategy and structure, and leading the company’s continuous transformation process. Hogan previously served as Microsoft’s chief human resources officer, overseeing the company’s 220,000 employees, focusing on making Microsoft an exceptional place for employees to work, and fostering a culture that attracts and inspires the world’s most passionate talent. Prior to that, Hogan served as corporate vice president of Microsoft Services, leading the company’s global consulting and support team dedicated to helping businesses and consumers maximize the value of their investment in Microsoft technologies. Before joining Microsoft in 2003, she was a partner at McKinsey & Co. and a development manager at Oracle Corp. Hogan was recognized with the CHRO Innovation Award in 2024 by the SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) Foundation’s Tharseō Awards and was inducted as a Fellow into the NAHR (National Academy of Human Resources) in 2022, and was also named “HR Executive of the Year” by Human Resource Executive magazine in 2021. She sits on the board of the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) as well as the SHRM Executive Council. As a breast cancer survivor and former board member of the Puget Sound affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, she lends her personal and business perspective to that board of directors. Hogan is also involved in the Seattle community and is a board member of the Alaska Air Group. Hogan earned her bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics and economics, magna cum laude, from Harvard University. In addition, she holds an M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
Jason Zander
EVP, Strategic Missions & Technologies
Jason Zander is the Executive Vice President of a newly created team at Microsoft, the Strategic Missions and Technologies Team. In this role, he is tasked with accelerating several of Microsoft's key emerging businesses. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from MSU.
Takeshi Numoto
EVP & Commercial Chief Marketing Officer
Takeshi Numoto is Microsoft’s chief marketing officer of the worldwide commercial business. As commercial chief marketing officer, Numoto runs marketing across a broad commercial product portfolio that enables businesses to modernize and digitally transform their operations using Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure, services and products, including Microsoft Azure, Windows Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform. Numoto also orchestrates cross-product marketing efforts that span industries and customer solution areas and has also been instrumental in modernizing marketing and commerce efforts across Microsoft, enabling new business models and marketing efforts that align to how modern enterprise customers want to engage with Microsoft. Prior to this role, Numoto worked in the Microsoft Office Division where he spearheaded the Microsoft Office and Office 365 product management group for the Microsoft Office productivity suites which include desktop applications such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, and Microsoft Office for Mac. Numoto joined Microsoft Corp. in September 1997 as a business development manager on the Windows NT Program Management Team. He was responsible for crafting and negotiating various technology licensing transactions that enabled the integration of new features into Windows products. After this initial role, Numoto worked on extending Windows operating system business into non-PC device categories with Microsoft Windows Embedded and Windows Mobile offerings. Before joining Microsoft, Numoto worked in the Japanese government’s Ministry of International Trade and Industry. He holds a bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Tokyo and an MBA from Stanford University.
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New Relic
Scott Guthrie
EVP, Cloud & AI
Scott Guthrie runs the Cloud and AI Group at Microsoft, and he is responsible for the company’s cloud, server, OS, Hardware, AI, database, business apps, security, management and development tools businesses. His team delivers Microsoft Azure, Dynamics 365, Windows Server, Visual Studio, GitHub, SQL Server, Power BI, and HoloLens.
Judson Althoff
EVP & Chief Commercial Officer
Judson Althoff is executive vice president of Microsoft’s Worldwide Commercial Business (WCB), which drives commercial business strategy for enterprise, public sector, small and mid-market, services, developer and partner communities. Althoff joined the company in March 2013 as president of Microsoft North America. In this role, he was responsible for commercial and public sector customers and partners, the retail and operator channel, and consumer business across the U.S. and Canada. Under his leadership, Microsoft North America achieved double-digit revenue growth in a $30 billion business and triple-digit cloud growth. Earlier in his career, Althoff spent several years in senior sales roles at Oracle and EMC. He earned a mechanical engineering degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), serves on IIT’s Computer Science Advisory Board and is co-chair of Free the Children’s Seattle WE Day. Originally from Ohio, Althoff resides in Seattle with his wife.
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Amy Hood
EVP & CFO
As chief financial officer, Amy Hood is responsible for leading Microsoft’s worldwide finance organization, including acquisitions, treasury activities, tax planning, accounting and reporting, and internal audit and investor relations. Prior to this role, Hood was chief financial officer of Microsoft’s Business Division, responsible for the company’s productivity applications and services including Microsoft Office 365, Office, SharePoint, Exchange, Dynamics ERP and Dynamics CRM. During her time in the Business Division, Hood helped lead the transition to the company’s Office 365 service, and she was deeply involved in the strategy development and overall execution of the company’s successful acquisitions of Skype and Yammer. Hood joined Microsoft in 2002 and previously held positions in the Server and Tools Business as well as the corporate finance organization. Prior to 2002, she worked at Goldman Sachs & Co. in various investment banking and capital markets groups roles. Hood earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Duke University and a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard University. Hood lives in Seattle with her husband and daughters.
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Phil Spencer
EVP, Gaming
Phil Spencer is executive vice president, Gaming at Microsoft. In this role, Spencer is accountable for leading Microsoft’s gaming business across all devices and services. With his team and game development partners, Spencer continues to push the boundaries of creativity, technical innovation and fun across gaming genres, audiences and devices. Spencer is both a passionate gamer and seasoned gaming executive serving more than 15 years in the gaming industry leading global business, creative and engineering teams. Spencer has held various roles across Microsoft including Head of Xbox, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Studios, and GM, Microsoft Game Studios EMEA. In these roles, Spencer led the Xbox organization with the launches of Xbox One S and Xbox One X, the acquisition of Minecraft and influenced blockbuster game franchises from “Halo,” “Gears of War,” “Forza Motorsport,” as well as Microsoft Publishing. He’s also led the expansion of cross-platform gaming with Xbox Live, which now counts more than 50 million monthly active users. Before beginning his career as an intern with Microsoft in 1988, Spencer earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington. He currently serves on the board of Entertainment Software Association and of First Tee of Greater Seattle. Spencer has two daughters in college and lives with his wife in the Seattle area.
Dan Lewis
Corporate Vice President
Dan Lewis is a seasoned technology executive currently serving as Chief Product Officer at Microsoft, focusing on Business and Industry solutions and Copilot AI since February 2025. With extensive experience as an advisor and investor for various startups since 2012, Dan co-founded Convoy Inc. in 2015, where innovative trucking and logistics solutions were developed, serving as CEO until 2024. Prior roles include Technical Advisor at Flexport, General Manager for new shopping experiences at Amazon, and VP of Product at Wavii, which was acquired by Google. Dan began a career in strategy and operations consulting at Oliver Wyman and has held various positions at Microsoft. Dan holds a Bachelor's degree in Cognitive Science and Psychology from Yale University and studied abroad at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso.
Bobby Yerramilli-Rao
Chief Strategy Officer & CVP, Corporate Strategy
Bobby Yerramilli-Rao is the Chief Strategy Officer and Corporate Vice President, Corporate Strategy at Microsoft, joining the company effective January 2020. Yerramilli-Rao is the co-founder and co-chair of Cambridge Epigenetix, a biosciences company, as well as co-founder of Inflex, a stealth-mode company working on applying biochemistry to cancer treatment. He also was the co-founder and managing partner of Fusion Global Capital, formerly Hermes Growth Partners (HGP), according to his LinkedIn profile.
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