Ryan Roslansky is leaving Microsoft after nearly 18 years, and the company reorganized its LinkedIn and Microsoft 365 leadership effective today, according to an internal message from CEO Satya Nadella. Roslansky will stay on through the end of the calendar year as an advisor to help with the transition, Nadella said. No successor has been named for his Microsoft 365 role.
Dan Shapero continues as LinkedIn CEO and now reports directly to Nadella, while Mohak Shroff also keeps his role and reports to Nadella. Inside Microsoft 365, Sumit Chauhan and Lan Ye now report to Charles Lamanna, and Jon Friedman reports to Jacob Andreou. LinkedIn counts 1.3 billion members, a figure Nadella cited in the message.
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Roslansky became LinkedIn CEO in 2020, after Jeff Weiner first hired him at the company in 2009. Under his leadership, LinkedIn passed a billion members and nearly tripled its business, according to the announcement. He said the decision came down to location, explaining that leading the next phase well would require being in Redmond every day while his family life is in the Bay Area.
Nadella framed the reshuffle around last week's product launch, which he called a milestone. He said the company's stated goal is to make Copilot a new operating system for work, with Office folded into Copilot and Copilot into Office. The reorganization lands as Microsoft pushes Copilot deeper into its productivity suite.
That push has been building for months. In July, OpenAI designated GPT 5.6 as the preferred model for Microsoft 365 Copilot, covering Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Cowork. Microsoft has also reported 15 million paid Microsoft 365 Copilot users, a figure that amounted to 3.3% of its 450 million Microsoft 365 users.
Regulators have taken an interest in how Microsoft bundles those features. Italy's competition authority opened a probe into Microsoft 365 subscription changes, alleging users were auto-enrolled into costlier plans without clear notice. The UK's CMA also launched a strategic market status investigation into Microsoft's software business.
