Microsoft's official internal organizational chart reveals the top 30 executives who run the company's cloud business under Satya Nadella.
Led by longtime executive VP Scott Guthrie, Microsoft's Cloud + AI group includes the Microsoft Azure public cloud computing business, cloud-based products such as customer relationship management software Dynamics 365, the company's artificial intelligence platform, and code-storage subsidiary GitHub.
Insider identified Microsoft's top cloud executives and the people who report directly to them as of 2021 by reviewing a copy of Microsoft's official organizational chart, which is not public but made available to employees. Microsoft did not respond to a request for comment on this story.
Nadella created the Cloud + AI group through a reorganization in 2018 and put Guthrie in charge. More recently, Microsoft last week confirmed to ZDNet another reorganization in the Cloud + AI unit that shifted responsibilities between executives.
On the post-reorg chart Insider viewed, corporate vice president of Microsoft's AI platform Eric Boyd no longer appears as one of Guthrie's direct reports, though Microsoft has yet to make an announcement about any changes affecting him. Microsoft and Boyd did not respond to requests about whether he has been reassigned, or if he has plans to leave the company.
The Azure business itself is run by Jason Zander, who has worked for Microsoft since 1992 and was promoted to executive vice president in 2018. Zander worked directly with Nadella on the nascent cloud unit that's since become a booming business for Microsoft — and the leading competitor to market-dominating Amazon Web Services.
"Jason has quietly become the most important executive at Microsoft given that Azure has helped power the company's resurgence," Morningstar analyst Dan Romanoff recently told Business Insider. "Nadella was running Azure in its infancy and he brought Zander over to help develop the strategy, product, and grow the business. And grow it he has."
Notably, he also appears to be the only Microsoft executive vice president who does not report directly to the CEO. He sits below Guthrie on the company's org chart.
Microsoft's overall commercial cloud business – which includes its Microsoft Azure cloud computing business, the Microsoft 365 suite of cloud software applications and other services – reached $16.7 billion in the company's most recent quarter, up 34% compared to the same quarter last year. The company booked $43.1 billion of total revenue in the same quarter.
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Meet the 30 people who run Microsoft's cloud under CEO Satya Nadella:
