Who is Judson Althoff? Satya Nadella appoints new CEO to run Microsoft's commercial enterprise

Judson Althoff of Microsoft will take on an extensive role as CEO of Commercial Enterprise and liberate the company chief Satya Nadella to focus more on the technical giant’s search to dominate the AI ​​race. Althoff will lead what Nadella, CEO of Microsoft calls a new organization, which will combine sales, marketing and operations. Nadella said the reorganization will help him and other engineering leaders to be “laser focused on our highest ambition technical work -about our build -up of data centers, system architecture, AI science and product innovation,” in a blog post on Wednesday. Althoff will also be the head of a new commercial leadership team that includes leaders of engineering, sales, marketing, operations and finance. “We are in the midst of a tectonic AI platform shift, which requires us to run and grow our commercial business on the scale today, while building the new border and exporting faultlessly across both,” Nadella said. In 2021, Microsoft brought together its global sales and marketing organization and global commercial business in a single united organization, led by Althoff, who joined the company in 2013 as president of Microsoft North America. Microsoft said last month that it combines the separate market places for its AI instruments aimed at businesses in one offer called “Microsoft Marketplace.” It previously offered tools for software developers, who use the Azure Cloud Computing Service in one market, and applications and so-called “agents” -ai instruments designed to perform tasks on behalf of human users within applications to another.