Microsoft Announces Leadership Shakeup in Experiences + Devices Team

Microsoft announced today that Experience + Devices executive vice president Rajesh Jha will retire mid-year while Jeff Teper is being promoted to executive vice president and Sumit Chauhan and Kirk Koenigsbauer are being promoted to president.

“We’re announcing these top-level changes today, and between now and June, my leadership team and I will work together to finalize the full cascade of details needed in this kind of transition,” Mr. Jha wrote in an email to Microsoft employees. “This includes aligning operating rhythms, decision ownership, and details on the future org structure, all so we’ll be fully aligned and ready to run at the start of [fiscal year 2027, which starts July 1]. Our intent in taking this approach is to minimize changes and not lose the great momentum we have.”

Experiences + Devices is an organization that spans two of Microsoft’s top-level business units, Productivity and Business Processes (Microsoft 365) and More Personal Computing (Windows). He played a key role in creating what’s now called Microsoft 365 and has worked at Microsoft since 1990, when he started to help ship multiple versions of Microsoft Works. You may recall he was the face of Windows for a few years after Terry Myerson left the company.

“When I think about the pantheon of leaders who have truly shaped this company, Rajesh stands firmly among them,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wrote in a separate email to employees addressing the changes. “He embodies the commitment that helped build and transform Microsoft into the company it is today, and it is on the strength of that foundation that we will continue to move forward.”

Jha says that Perry Clarke, Charles Lamanna, Pavan Davuluri, and Ryan Roslansky will all report directly to Mr. Nadella as executive vice presidents going forward. Clarke is currently a president of Microsoft 365 Core, Lamanna is currently a president of Business & Industry Copilot, Davuluri is a president of Windows + Devices, and Roslansky is CEO of LinkedIn and executive vice president of Office.