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Title: Microsoft's LinkedIn Chief Is Now Running Office

Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/04/2124...

Announced in an internal memo from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, LinkedIn CEO
Ryan Roslansky has been appointed to also lead the Office, Outlook, and
Microsoft 365 Copilot teams as part of an internal AI reorganization.
Roslansky will report to Rajesh Jha for Office while continuing to run
LinkedIn independently under Nadella. The Verge reports: "LinkedIn remains a
top priority and will continue to operate as an independent subsidiary," says
Nadella in his memo. "This move brings us closer to the original vision we
laid out nine years ago with the LinkedIn acquisition: connecting the world's
economic graph with the Microsoft Graph. And I look forward to how Ryan will
bring his product ethos and leadership to entertainment and devices." Sumit
Chauhan and Gaurav Sareen, senior executives in the Office and Microsoft 365
teams, will remain on the entertainment and devices leadership team, but
along with their teams they'll join Jon Friedman and the UX team to work
directly for Roslansky. Charles Lamanna and his BIC team are also moving to
report to Rajesh Jha as part of an AI shakeup. "Charles has consistently kept
us focused on what it takes to win in business applications and the agent
layer, and I look forward to the impact he and his team will have in
entertainment and devices," says Nadella. In a separate memo, Lamanna also
announced that starting July 2nd Lili Cheng will take on the newly expanded
role of CTO of the BIC team. Dan Lewis is also taking on the role of
corporate vice president of Copilot Studio. "We are poised to reinvent every
role and every business process, and start to reimagine organizations as
composed of people and agents," says Lamanna in an internal memo. Both the
Lamanna and Roslansky moves are very interesting, as the business Copilot
team and Microsoft 365 Copilot team have been in separate parts of
Microsoft's sprawling AI and cloud teams up until this point. This has led to
a situation where nobody really owns Copilot all up inside Microsoft, but now
the separate leaders of Microsoft 365 Copilot and the business Copilot teams
now both report to Rajesh Jha. The consumer Copilot will still be run by
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman.

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