Microsoft's Satya Nadella takes big leadership swings in race to catch up to AI leaders
2025-12-30 21:55
Microsoft’s leader Satya Nadella has been busy shifting roles and responsibilities at the tech company this year, bringing in new talent and moving people around as the firm tries to stay on top in the artificial intelligence race. The head of the 50-year-old company has brought in big names like Jay Parikh , who led the engineering at Meta, and given bigger jobs to people already working there, including Judson Althoff who handles business sales and Ryan Roslansky who is chief executive officer of LinkedIn, the professional networking site Microsoft bought years ago. The changes come as other tech companies are catching up in AI, and Nadella wants Microsoft to move faster on making its own AI systems, improving tools for programmers, and building better software programs, according to some current and former employees at Microsoft. “Satya is in ‘founder mode’,” said Dee Templeton, who holds a senior technology role...
