New Delhi: IIT Madras graduate, Pavan Davuluri was appointed the new head of Microsoft Windows and Surface. It made him the latest Indian to overtake a leadership role at the big tech giant much like Google’s Sundar Pichai and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella.
Longtime product chief Panos Panay, who left the department last year to join Amazon, is replaced by Davuluri.
Formerly, Mikhail Parakhin led the Windows Department and Davuluri was in charge of the surface group. Davuluri assumed control of the Windows and Surface divisions following the resignations of Parakhin and Panay.
An internal memo from Microsoft’s head of experiences and devices, Rajesh Jha accessed by The Verge outlined the new hierarchy in the organization to take a holistic approach to building its devices and experiences in the AI era.
In the internal memo, Rajesh Jha stated that the Windows experiences and Windows+devices team will now work together as a fundamental component of the Experiences+Devices (E+D) division.
He went on to say that this would allow them to develop silicon, systems, experiences, and gadgets that transcend Windows client and cloud for this AI age in an all-encompassing manner. This team will be led by Pavan Davuluri, to whom they will report. Additionally, he stated that the Windows team and the Microsoft AI team will continue to collaborate closely on AI, silicon, and experiences.
Over his more than 23 years with Microsoft, Davuluri has contributed to the company’s efforts alongside AMD and Qualcomm to develop Surface processors.
The announcement for reorganisation comes days after Google Deepmind Co-founder and former inflexion AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman joined Microsoft as the CEO of its new AI team.
