Microsoft reshuffles Copilot leadership as it doubles down on its superintelligence mission

Microsoft is going all in on superintelligence and thinks a Copilot shakeup is needed to help it get there, with new execs now leading areas like M365 apps and Copilot.

Microsoft has announced a new leadership shakeup for its Copilot assistant. The changes come with a combination of its commercial and consumer teams into a single, unified organization.

Jacob Andreou has been promoted to Executive Vice President, Copilot, reporting directly to Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella. Andreou will lead the entire Copilot experience, from design and product to engineering. Before joining Redmond, Andreou was the Senior Vice President of Product and Growth at Snap, where he spent eight years helping to scale the social media platform during its most formative period.

The M365 apps and the Copilot platform will be co-led by a trio of executives: Ryan Roslansky, Perry Clarke, and Charles Lamanna. Roslansky is currently the CEO of LinkedIn (appointed in 2020) and Executive Vice President of Microsoft Office.

Clarke has spent nearly a decade working on Microsoft 365 and also served as General Manager for Microsoft Exchange, where he was responsible for core infrastructure. The last member of the trio, Lamanna, has been with Microsoft on and off since 2009 and previously led engineering teams that built the foundational infrastructure for Microsoft Azure.

Mustafa Suleyman is retaining his title as Executive Vice President and CEO of Microsoft AI but his responsibilities are shifting. He will now "focus all [his] energy on our Superintelligence efforts and be able to deliver world class models for Microsoft over the next 5 years."

As you will have just heard from Satya, the next phase of this plan is to restructure our organization to enable me to focus all my energy on our Superintelligence efforts and be able to deliver world class models for Microsoft over the next 5 years.

 

These models will enable us to build enterprise tuned lineages that help improve all our products across the company. They'll also enable us to deliver the COGS efficiencies necessary to be able to serve AI workloads at the immense scale required in the coming years. Achieving all this will be a huge challenge, and I'm committing everything we have – and I have personally – to make it happen.

Microsoft has been reorganizing its AI and Copilot leadership over the last two years. Before this recent restructuring, its CEO Satya Nadella, in March 2024, hired DeepMind and Inflection AI co-founder Mustafa Suleyman to lead a newly formed division called "Microsoft AI".

At the time, Mikhail Parakhin was the head of Microsoft's Advertising and Web Services, with his team handling products like Bing, Edge, and even the consumer version of Copilot. Nadella announced that Parakhin's group would report to the newly hired Suleyman. Parakhin was reportedly not happy with this arrangement and stepped down shortly after. He's now the CTO at Shopify.

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Posted Wednesday 18 March 2026 at 6:37 am AEST (my time).

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