Tom Warren

Microsoft has hired former GE executive Carolina Dybeck Happe as its new chief operations officer. It’s a newly created role that fills the lack of a chief operating officer since Kevin Turner departed in 2016. The role will see Happe join Microsoft’s senior leadership team and report directly to CEO Satya Nadella. Happe will help “accelerate our company-wide AI transformation,” according to Nadella. The hiring comes on the same day Microsoft laid off 650 Xbox employees.