Chief Commercial Officer Judson Althoff will take on an expanded role as CEO of the commercial business, freeing up company chief Satya Nadella to focus more on the technical side of the business in the tech giant’s quest to dominate the AI race. Althoff will lead what Microsoft CEO Nadella called a new organization, which will combine sales, marketing, and operations. Althoff will also be the chief of a new commercial leadership team that includes leaders from engineering, sales, marketing, operations, and finance. “We are in the midst of a tectonic AI platform shift, one that requires us to both manage and grow our at-scale commercial business today, while building the new frontier and executing flawlessly across both,” Nadella said. In 2021, Microsoft brought together its global sales and marketing organization and worldwide commercial business into a single unified organization, helmed by Althoff, who joined the company in 2013 as president of Microsoft North America.