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Yahoo
4 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
LinkedIn CEO to Oversee Office and Copilot Under Microsoft Restructure
Microsoft (MSFT, Financials) CEO Satya Nadella reassigned responsibilities within the company's productivity and artificial intelligence divisions in a memo viewed by Reuters on Wednesday. Ryan Roslansky, chief executive officer of LinkedIn, will continue leading the business-focused social network while assuming oversight of Office applications and Copilot, Microsoft's enterprise AI assistant. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 5 Warning Sign with MSFT. Roslansky will report to Rajesh Jha, who manages Windows, Teams and other core products. Under the new structure, existing Office leaders Sumit Chauhan and Gaurav Sareen will also report to Jha. In addition, Charles Lamannawho heads Copilot for business and industrial userswill join Jha's reporting line, the memo said. Nadella's internal realignment aims to integrate LinkedIn more closely with Microsoft's broader productivity suite. Roslansky's new duties include overseeing Word, Excel and other Office applications alongside Copilot. Analysts say the move could accelerate the development of AI-powered features across Microsoft's productivity offerings. The changes come amid intensifying competition in business-to-business AI and collaboration tools. Copilot, launched earlier this year, is a key growth driver as enterprises seek to automate workflows. By shifting Copilot's leadership under Jhawho already supervises Windows and TeamsMicrosoft intends to streamline decision-making for its AI and productivity businesses. The reorganization follows similar structures at other technology firms, which combine social networking data with productivity tools to boost engagement. Roslansky, who became LinkedIn CEO in June 2020, led LinkedIn through record levels of membership and revenue growth. His expanded role signals Microsoft's commitment to embedding LinkedIn's professional network into its core productivity services. This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
LinkedIn CEO to Oversee Office and Copilot Under Microsoft Restructure
Microsoft (MSFT, Financials) CEO Satya Nadella reassigned responsibilities within the company's productivity and artificial intelligence divisions in a memo viewed by Reuters on Wednesday. Ryan Roslansky, chief executive officer of LinkedIn, will continue leading the business-focused social network while assuming oversight of Office applications and Copilot, Microsoft's enterprise AI assistant. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 5 Warning Sign with MSFT. Roslansky will report to Rajesh Jha, who manages Windows, Teams and other core products. Under the new structure, existing Office leaders Sumit Chauhan and Gaurav Sareen will also report to Jha. In addition, Charles Lamannawho heads Copilot for business and industrial userswill join Jha's reporting line, the memo said. Nadella's internal realignment aims to integrate LinkedIn more closely with Microsoft's broader productivity suite. Roslansky's new duties include overseeing Word, Excel and other Office applications alongside Copilot. Analysts say the move could accelerate the development of AI-powered features across Microsoft's productivity offerings. The changes come amid intensifying competition in business-to-business AI and collaboration tools. Copilot, launched earlier this year, is a key growth driver as enterprises seek to automate workflows. By shifting Copilot's leadership under Jhawho already supervises Windows and TeamsMicrosoft intends to streamline decision-making for its AI and productivity businesses. The reorganization follows similar structures at other technology firms, which combine social networking data with productivity tools to boost engagement. Roslansky, who became LinkedIn CEO in June 2020, led LinkedIn through record levels of membership and revenue growth. His expanded role signals Microsoft's commitment to embedding LinkedIn's professional network into its core productivity services. This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Time of India
5 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
LinkedIn CEO to take over Office, more AI duties in Microsoft executive shuffle
HighlightsRyan Roslansky, the Chief Executive Officer of LinkedIn, will take on additional responsibilities overseeing Microsoft's Office products, including Word and Excel. Roslansky will also oversee 'Copilot,' Microsoft's leading artificial intelligence product within the productivity software suite. Charles Lamanna, who leads 'Copilot' for business and industrial users, will now report to Rajesh Jha, who oversees Microsoft Windows and Teams. The CEO of LinkedIn will take additional responsibility for Microsoft's Office products, while an executive responsible for one of the company's leading business-to-business artificial intelligence products will start reporting to head of the company's Windows unit, according to a memo from Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella viewed by Reuters. Ryan Roslansky , who oversees the business-focused social network owned by Microsoft, will remain CEO of LinkedIn but also oversee products such as Word and Excel and also "Copilot," Microsoft's leading AI product, within the company's productivity software suite, the memo said. Roslansky will report to Rajesh Jha , who oversees Microsoft Windows and Teams, among other duties. The memo said existing Office leaders Sumit Chauhan and Gaurav Sareen will report to Jha as well. Also moving to report to Jha will be Charles Lamanna , who leads "Copilot" for business and industrial users, the memo said.
Geek Wire
5 days ago
- Business
- Geek Wire
Microsoft taps LinkedIn CEO for dual role leading Office in AI strategy shift
Ryan Roslansky, CEO of LinkedIn, will also lead Microsoft Office applications under a new organizational structure aimed at accelerating the company's agentic web AI strategy. (Microsoft Photo) LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky will take on a second role under a new Microsoft organizational structure, overseeing Office apps in addition to leading the business networking platform acquired by the Redmond company nine years ago. Microsoft is announcing the change internally Wednesday morning. As executive vice president for Office, Roslansky will be responsible for Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Microsoft 365 Copilot, while continuing as LinkedIn CEO. The move is intended to tap Roslansky's product experience and strengthen the ties between Microsoft's core platforms as it pursues its 'agentic web' AI strategy. In the Office role, Roslansky will report to Rajesh Jha, Microsoft's EVP of Experiences + Devices. Roslansky will still report to CEO Satya Nadella for LinkedIn. Office leaders Sumit Chauhan and Gaurav Sareen will remain in their roles, according to the company, now reporting to Roslansky as part of the new structure. Microsoft also said Charles Lamanna, who leads the Business and Industry Copilot team, will now report to Jha — shifting out of Scott Guthrie's Cloud + AI division. The changes are not directly related to recent job cuts by Microsoft, according to people inside the company. Microsoft Revenue by Product Segment Nine Months Ended March 31, 2025 • Total Revenue: $205.3B Source: Microsoft 10Q filing; GeekWire Graphic made by The changes consolidate Microsoft's productivity and business applications under one division, aiming to create tighter integration among LinkedIn, Microsoft 365 (including Office apps), and Dynamics 365 as it develops cross-platform AI tools. Microsoft's reshuffling comes amid intensifying competition to integrate AI agents across different types of business software and cloud services, going up against rivals such as Salesforce, Amazon and Google. The company acquired LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in 2016, but has let it operate largely independently, without the deep integrations seen across Microsoft's other businesses. Roslansky, who has led LinkedIn since 2020, guided the company through the pandemic and expanded its use of AI and skills-based tools. LinkedIn generated $13.2 billion in revenue during the first nine months of Microsoft's fiscal year, up 8% from $12.1 billion in the same period last year. It ranked as Microsoft's fourth-largest business line by revenue, behind Server Products and Cloud Services ($70.6 billion); Microsoft 365 Commercial ($63.5 billion); and Gaming ($17.9 billion).
CNBC
5 days ago
- Business
- CNBC
Microsoft gives LinkedIn chief Roslansky added role running Office
Microsoft is giving LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky a bigger job, expanding his role to include oversight of Office productivity software, CNBC has learned. Roslansky, who took over LinkedIn five years ago, is becoming executive vice president of Office, reporting to Rajesh Jha, Microsoft's executive vice president for experiences and devices, according to a person familiar with the matter. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella informed employees about the change in an email on Wednesday, said the person, who asked not to be named because the email was internal. In his role as LinkedIn CEO, Roslansky will continue to report to Nadella, the person said. LinkedIn, which Microsoft acquired in 2016 for $27 billion, will keep operating as a subsidiary, after generating more than $17 billion in revenue over the past year. Roslansky joined LinkedIn in 2009 and previously worked at Yahoo. In 2022, Microsoft rebranded its Office 365 productivity software bundle, which includes applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams, to Microsoft 365. In addition to overseeing those products, Roslansky's portfolio will also include the M365 Copilot app, which lets users edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. Jha's group released the app in 2020. As part of the organizational change, Microsoft said Charles Lamanna, corporate vice president for business and industry Copilot products, and his team will move to Jha's unit. They were previously part of Executive Vice President Scott Guthrie's cloud and artificial intelligence group. Lamanna supervises Dynamics 365 sales and customer service products that compete with Salesforce, as well as the Copilot Studio tool for easily building artificial intelligence agents. In December, Nadella said that AI agents might become the way that people eventually interact with software systems that were designed for use inside large organizations. "When was the last time any of us really went to a business application?" he told investors Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley on their podcast. He said the company pays for a bunch of cloud software applications, but "we hardly use them and somebody in the org is sort of inputting data into it." "In the AI age, the intensity goes up because all that data now is easy, right?" Nadella said. The company's Productivity and Business Processes segment, anchored by Microsoft 365 subscriptions and LinkedIn, has turned more profitable in the past decade. The unit's operating margin in the fiscal third quarter exceeded 58%, compared with 33% in 2017. Revenue was up 10% from a year earlier.
