Carolina Dybek Happe.
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Microsoft told staff on Thursday it had Hire Carolina Dybek Happe Serves as executive vice president and operating officer, reporting to CEO Satya Nadella. Dybeck Happe comes from GE, where he served as senior vice president and chief financial officer from 2020 to September 2023.
The appointment reflects Microsoft’s commitment to ensuring the company remains aligned as much of its business shifts to artificial intelligence.
She will join Microsoft’s senior leadership team along with finance chief Amy Hood, cloud and artificial intelligence engineering leader Scott Guthrie and other senior executives.
“Carolina will work with SLT to help us drive continuous improvement of business processes across all organizations and accelerate our company-wide AI transformation to increase the value of our customers and partners,” Nadella wrote in a memo to employees. value.
Nadella said Dybeck Happe will take over Guthrie’s business and ecosystem organization, Microsoft’s digital IT team led by Office software chief Rajesh Jha, and Microsoft’s business operations department in the finance department.
Dybeck Happe’s appointment comes just months after GE’s aviation and energy businesses, known as GE Aerospace and GE Vernova respectively. Start trading Listed on the New York Stock Exchange. General Electric announced plans It will be split into three companies in 2021.
GE Chief Executive Larry Culp called Dybeck Happe “a high-impact executive.” declare In 2019, the company appointed Dybeck Happe as chief financial officer, succeeding Jamie Miller.
She joins GE from Maersk where she served as finance director. Prior to that, she worked for nearly 17 years at Swedish lock company Assa Abloy, where she served as chief financial officer and deputy chief executive.
Microsoft has been without a chief operating officer since former Walmart executive Kevin Turner left in 2016.
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