Microsoft Reorganizes Copilot Team, Names Jacob Andreou EVP Reporting To CEO Nadella

‘This is how we move from a collection of great products to a truly integrated system, one that is simpler and more powerful for customers,’ says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

Microsoft is looking to better unify innovation of its Copilot artificial intelligence product across commercial and consumer users with an internal restructuring that promotes one executive and creates four new pillars within the technology giant–with alignments expected “over the next few weeks” as part of the changes.

The four organizational pillars the Redmond, Wash.-based AI and cloud products giant is building are Copilot experience, Copilot platform, Microsoft 365 applications and AI models. Microsoft revealed that three executives recently promoted to direct reports to CEO Satya Nadella–Charles Lamanna, Perry Clarke and Ryan Roslansky–will lead the M365 apps and Copilot platform pillars.

“This is how we move from a collection of great products to a truly integrated system, one that is simpler and more powerful for customers,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in a blog post about the changes Tuesday. “Our org boundaries will simply reflect system architecture and product shape such that we can deliver more coherent and competitive experiences that continue to evolve with model capabilities. And I am looking forward to how together we apply all of this to empower people, organizations, and the world.”

Microsoft Leadership Changes

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The restructuring comes days after Microsoft revealed that Rajesh Jha, a 35-plus-year Microsoft veteran who ascended the ranks to executive vice president of the Experiences + Devices Group, will move into an advisory role July 1. Jha’s transition comes with promotions of a variety of long-time Microsoft executives–including Lamanna, Clarke and Roslansky.

Nadella disclosed in the Tuesday blog post that as part of the changes, Microsoft has promoted Jacob Andreou (pictured above) to the role of Copilot executive vice president. Andreou–who has been with Microsoft for about a year, previously serving as corporate vice president of product and growth within the Microsoft AI division–will report directly to CEO Nadella.

Although Andreou will report directly to Nadella, in a separate blog post Tuesday, Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman said that Andreou “will retain a dotted line to me.”

In Andreou’s new role, he “lead the Copilot experience across consumer and commercial, driving design, product, growth, and engineering,” Nadella said. In his CVP role, he “accelerated our user-focused AI-first product making and growth framework.”

Before Andreou joined Microsoft in 2025, he worked at Snapchat parent company Snap for about eight years, leaving in 2023 as senior vice president of product and growth, according to his LinkedIn account.

Suleyman, who has served as Microsoft AI CEO since 2024 after a deal with the Inflection AI startup Suleyman co-founded and led as CEO–will continue to hold a leadership position in Microsoft’s AI efforts.

Suleyman will continue to report to Nadella and lead the vendor’s AI model and “superintelligence” innovation work, which involves building models that can reduce business’ cost of goods sold, meet enterprise needs and achieve research breakthroughs.

“Mustafa is uniquely qualified to drive this forward, with his deep focus and commitment to advancing the frontiers of model science, while also ensuring that human control, agency, and economic opportunity remain at the center of these advancements,” Nadella said.

In Suleyman’s own Tuesday blog post about the organization changes, he said the moves will now allow him “to focus all my energy on our Superintelligence efforts and be able to deliver world class models for Microsoft over the next 5 years.”

The Microsoft AI CEO is at work building AI models that will bring enterprise-tuned lineages that should improve products across the vendor’s vast portfolio and reach new cost of goods sold efficiencies to scale AI workload service over the coming years.

Suleyman plans to stay directly involved in much of the day-to-day operations of Microsoft AI, including attending meetups, and will support Andreou in product strategy efforts.

Andreou, Suleyman, Roslansky, Clarke and Lamanna comprise the Copilot leadership team (LT) and are spending the next few weeks aligning teams to fit the new structure, according to Microsoft. This leadership team will focus on brand strategy, product roadmap, models, core infrastructure and user experiences, Suleyman said.

The other executives promoted alongside the Jha retirement announcement days ago are Pavan Davuluri, Jeff Teper, Sumit Chauhan and Kirk Koenigsbauer.

In January, Microsoft reported a slew of new milestones around growing Copilot use, including reveals that daily users of the Copilot application nearly tripled year over year, Microsoft 365 Copilot’s average number of conversations per user doubled year over year and daily active users increased tenfold year over year.