Carolina Dybeck Happe.
Source: GE
Microsoft to employees there has hired Carolina Dybeck Happe as executive vice president and chief operating officer, reporting to CEO Satya Nadella. Dybeck Happe comes from GE, where he served as senior vice president and chief financial officer from 2020 to September 2023.
The appointment reflects Microsoft’s commitment to ensure that it remains coordinated as many companies have become oriented towards artificial intelligence.
He will join Microsoft’s senior leadership team alongside finance chief Amy Hood, cloud and AI engineering chief Scott Guthrie, and other executives.
“Carolina will partner with SLT to help us improve continuous business processes across our entire organization and accelerate AI transformation across the enterprise, adding value to our customers and partners,” Nadella wrote in a memo to employees.
Nadella said Dybeck Happe will take over Guthrie’s commerce and ecosystem organization, Microsoft’s Digital IT team under Office software leader Rajesh Jha, and Microsoft’s Business Operations unit in the finance department.
Dybeck Happe’s appointment comes months after GE’s aviation and energy businesses, known as GE Aerospace and GE Vernova, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange. GE announced plans to split into three companies in 2021.
GE CEO Larry Culp called Dybeck Happe a “highly influential executive” when GE announced in 2019 that it had tapped Dybeck Happe to replace Jamie Miller as chief financial officer.
He joins GE from Maersk, where he was chief financial officer. Prior to that, he spent almost 17 years at Swedish key company Assa Abloy, where he was chief financial officer and deputy CEO.
Microsoft has not had a chief operating officer since 2016, when former Walmart executive Kevin Turner left.
