Microsoft shuffles executive chairs ahead of global sales and commercial business reorg

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Published onMay 20, 2021

published onMay 20, 2021

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Microsoft tends to announce company-wide reorganizations in mid-summer and 2021 appears to be no different.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella primed the reorg well ahead of its planned merger of its Global Sales and Marketing Organization and Worldwide Commercial Business, by announcing 37-year companyveteran Jean-Philippe Courtoiswould not be leading the newly combined division as expected.

Courtois, who currently heads up Microsoft’s Global Sales, Marketing & Operations group would have been the likely executive to head up the company’s reorg division.

However,according to GeekWire, Nadella alerted Microsoft employees that Courtois will instead be splitting his time between data expansion and cloud business projects at the company as well as personal interest that include the entrepreneurial foundationLive for Good Foundation.

Instead, eight-year companyveteran Judson Althoffhas been tapped to lead Microsoft’s reorg that’s scheduled to take effect July 1, 2021.

Structurally speaking, Althoff appears to report to Nadella directly. The newly reorg Sales and Marketing and Commercial Business divisions has puts yet another exclamation point on Microsoft’s efforts to streamline its sales and support of its fastest growing product, Azure.

In March of this year, Microsoft’smove of 15,000 employeeswas the latest puzzle piece put into place to address its sprawling cloud business as it established the Digital Transformation Platform Group.

Back in July of 2020, Microsoft once again announced a reorg that focused on establishing a new consulting arm to, in some part,address its field salesof cloud computing solutions.

Kareem Anderson

Networking & Security Specialist

Kareem is a journalist from the bay area, now living in Florida. His passion for technology and content creation drives are unmatched, driving him to create well-researched articles and incredible YouTube videos.

He is always on the lookout for everything new about Microsoft, focusing on making easy-to-understand content and breaking down complex topics related to networking, Azure, cloud computing, and security.

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Kareem Anderson

Networking & Security Specialist

He is a journalist from the bay area, now living in Florida. He breaks down complex topics related to networking, Azure, cloud computing, and security

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