- An internal Microsoft tool tracks interactions between employees.
- It reveals who new AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman has been working with most.
- Suleyman joined Microsoft in March to lead its newly formed AI group for consumer products.
An internal Microsoft tracking tool has revealed which executives AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman is working with most during his first few months on the job.
Microsoft in March hired Suleyman, the head of startup Inflection AI and a cofounder of AI pioneer DeepMind, to be CEO of a newly formed Microsoft AI group. The organization is responsible for consumer AI products such as Microsoft's Copilot AI chatbot and the Bing search engine.
An internal organizational chart viewed by Business Insider revealed 12 executives who report directly to Suleyman, including Inflection cofounder Karén Simonyan, and several Microsoft veterans with decades of tenure at the software giant.
The org chart includes a tool called "also works with" that displays the employees with which the person has had the most recent interactions.
The following Microsoft executives have appeared recently in Suleyman's "also works with" list.
Yusuf Mehdi, consumer chief marketing officer
Mehdi is a member of Microsoft's senior leadership team and runs the company's consumer business, which at least until the establishment of the new AI organization included Copilot AI assistant, Microsoft Edge browser, Bing search engine, its Surface line of devices, and the consumer version of its Microsoft 365 software suite.
Kevin Scott, Microsoft chief technology officer
Kevin Scott is Microsoft's chief technology officer and executive vice president of AI. He's credited with establishing Microsoft's fruitful partnership with OpenAI. Scott is also is responsible for companywide AI strategy.
"Kevin was the first person I leaned on to help us manage our transformation to an AI-first company and I'll continue to lean on him to ensure that our AI strategy and initiatives are coherent across the breadth of Microsoft," CEO Satya Nadella wrote in a memo announcing Suleyman's hire earlier this year.
Amy Hood, chief financial officer
Amy Hood runs finance at Microsoft and is closely involved in AI strategy. In the company's most recent earnings release, Hood said Microsoft expects to ramp up spending significantly.
Microsoft has an internal target to amass 1.8 million AI chips by the end of 2024, according to a document viewed by Business Insider. The company also significantly expanded its data-center capacity recently, according to another internal document.
Rajesh Jha, EVP experiences and devices:
Rajesh Jha runs Microsoft's experiences and devices team, which until recently included the thousands of employees who now work for Suleyman.
Two Microsoft insiders told BI that those teams needed a more dedicated focus and that Jha wasn't considered to have the consumer vision that they required.
Jha continues to run important products, including the Microsoft 365 suite of business applications and the Teams chat app.
Caitlin McCabe, CEO chief of staff
McCabe is Satya Nadella's chief of staff. She's managed CEO communications since October 2013, before Nadella took over the job in early 2014, according to her LinkedIn profile. McCabe has been in her current role since September. Nadella himself did not appear on Suleyman's "also works with" list.
Jon Tinter, corporate vice president, business development
Tinter runs business development at Microsoft under deal boss Chris Young. Tinter has expertise in Suleyman's purview after spending years focusing on business development for Microsoft's search, advertising, and news businesses.
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