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Microsoft shakes the top brass

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Sonal Desai
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MUMBAI, INDIA: In a bid to reinvent productivity and business processes, build the intelligent cloud platform and create more personal computing devices, Microsoft has shuffled its top brass.

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In an email to its employees Wednesday, Microsoft announced changes to its Senior Leadership Team.

“We are aligning our engineering efforts and capabilities to deliver on our strategy and, in particular, our three core ambitions,” said Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft. “This change will enable us to deliver better products and services that our customers love at a more rapid pace.”

Terry Myerson, Executive Vice President, will lead a newly formed team, Windows and Devices Group (WDG). The main goal of the division is to up the quotient of the personal computing powered by the Windows ecosystem. This new team combines the engineering efforts of the current Operating Systems Group and Microsoft Devices Group.

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Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President will continue to lead the Cloud and Enterprise (C+E) team focused on building the intelligent cloud platform. The team will also focus on building high-value infrastructure and business services in the areas of data and analytics, security and management, and development tools.

As a part of this announcement, the company will move the Dynamics development teams to the C+E team, enabling the company to accelerate ERP and CRM, and integrate these services into the mainstream C+E engineering and innovation efforts.

Qi Lu, Executive Vice President, will continue to lead the Applications and Services Group (ASG) aimed at reinventing productivity services for the digital space.

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Following these changes, Microsoft’s Senior Leadership Team now comprises 12 senior executives. They are:

Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer

Chris Capossela, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer

Kurt DelBene, Executive Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Planning

Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President, Cloud and Enterprise

Amy Hood, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Kathleen Hogan, Executive Vice President, Human Resources

Peggy Johnson, Executive Vice President, Business Development

Qi Lu, Executive Vice President, Applications and Services Group

Terry Myerson, Executive Vice President, Windows and Devices Group

Harry Shum, Executive Vice President, Technology and Research

Brad Smith, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Legal and Corporate Affairs

Kevin Turner, Chief Operating Officer

As a result of the organizational moves, Stephen Elop, Kirill Tatarinov and Eric Rudder will leave Microsoft after a designated transition period. Chief Insights Officer Mark Penn has also decided to pursue another venture outside Microsoft and will be leaving the company in September.

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