By Taylor Soper
Publication Date: 2026-01-20 18:49:00
Andréa Mallard, who spent the past seven years leading marketing at Pinterest, joined Microsoft AI as its new chief marketing officer.
Mallard started in her new role two weeks ago. She said she was drawn to Microsoft’s AI group “to help build a technology that truly earns the trust needed to serve human potential.”
“AI is already the most consequential technological shift of my lifetime,” she wrote on LinkedIn. “It will shape our children’s lives in ways that are difficult to predict.”
Before joining Pinterest in 2018, Mallard was CMO at Athleta and Omada Health. She’s currently a board director at Hydrow, Kajabi, and TwentyFirstCenturyBrand.
Microsoft AI, led by Mustafa Suleyman, launched in 2024 and focuses on consumer products and research.
— Claudine Cheever, vice president of global brand and marketing at Amazon, is replacing Mallard as…