By Ashley Stewart
Publication Date: 2026-02-04 10:00:00
Judson Althoff, a veteran Microsoft executive recently promoted to commercial CEO, is making changes to the top ranks of his team, according to an internal memo viewed by Business Insider.
He elevated Deb Cupp to executive vice president and chief revenue officer of global enterprise sales, according to the memo. Cupp’s previous title was president and chief revenue officer of enterprise, according to an internal organizational chart from when Althoff was promoted in October.
Althoff’s promotion was intended to give CEO Satya Nadella and Microsoft‘s engineering leaders more time to focus on AI, according to an internal memo viewed by Business Insider, which described the moment as “a tectonic AI platform shift.”
Cupp has been at Microsoft for more than eight years and is known for helping the company tailor cloud services for specific industries. In this new role, Cupp will help handle the company’s most strategic customer accounts and executive…
