Carolina Dybeck Happe.
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Microsoft informed workers on Thursday that it has employed Carolina Dybeck Happe as its government vice chairman and chief operations officer, reporting to CEO Satya Nadella. Dybeck Happe comes from GE, the place she was senior vice chairman and chief monetary officer from 2020 till September 2023.
The appointment displays Microsoft’s dedication to making sure it stays coordinated as a lot of the corporate has develop into oriented round synthetic intelligence.
She is going to be part of Microsoft’s senior management staff alongside finance chief Amy Hood, cloud and AI engineering chief Scott Guthrie, and different executives.
“Carolina will companion with the SLT to assist us drive steady enterprise course of enchancment throughout all our organizations and speed up our company-wide AI transformation, rising worth to clients and companions,” Nadella wrote in a memo to workers.
Nadella stated Dybeck Happe will take over Guthrie’s commerce and ecosystems group, the Microsoft Digital IT staff beneath Workplace software program chief Rajesh Jha, and the Microsoft Enterprise Operations unit within the finance division.
Dybeck Happe’s appointment comes months after GE’s aviation and vitality companies, often known as GE Aerospace and GE Vernova respectively, began buying and selling on the New York Inventory Trade. GE introduced plans to separate into three corporations in 2021.
GE CEO Larry Culp referred to as Dybeck Happe “a high-impact government” when GE introduced in 2019 that it had picked Dybeck Happe to succeed Jamie Miller as chief monetary officer.
She joined GE from Maersk, the place she had been finance chief. Earlier than that, she spent nearly 17 years at Swedish lock firm Assa Abloy, the place she grew to become chief monetary officer and deputy CEO.
Microsoft has not had an working chief since 2016, when former Walmart government Kevin Turner left.
