Microsoft hires former GE CFO Carolina Dybeck Happe as COO

Microsoft instructed staff on Thursday that it has hired Carolina Dybeck Happe as its government vp and chief operations officer, reporting to CEO Satya Nadella. Dybeck Happe comes from GE, the place she was senior vp and chief monetary officer from 2020 till September 2023.

The appointment displays Microsoft’s dedication to making sure it stays coordinated as a lot of the corporate has turn out to be oriented round synthetic intelligence.

She is going to be part of Microsoft’s senior management crew alongside finance chief Amy Hood, cloud and AI engineering chief Scott Guthrie, and different executives.

“Carolina will associate with the SLT to assist us drive steady enterprise course of enchancment throughout all our organizations and speed up our company-wide AI transformation, growing worth to prospects and companions,” Nadella wrote in a memo to staff.

Nadella stated Dybeck Happe will take over Guthrie’s commerce and ecosystems group, the Microsoft Digital IT crew underneath Workplace software program chief Rajesh Jha, and the Microsoft Enterprise Operations unit within the finance division.

Dybeck Happe’s appointment comes months after GE’s aviation and power companies, often called GE Aerospace and GE Vernova respectively, started trading on the New York Inventory Change. GE announced plans to separate into three firms in 2021.

GE CEO Larry Culp known as Dybeck Happe “a high-impact government” when GE announced in 2019 that it had picked Dybeck Happe to succeed Jamie Miller as chief monetary officer.

She joined GE from Maersk, the place she had been finance chief. Earlier than that, she spent virtually 17 years at Swedish lock firm Assa Abloy, the place she grew to become chief monetary officer and deputy CEO.

Microsoft has not had an working chief since 2016, when former Walmart government Kevin Turner left.