- Jay Parikh leads Microsoft's new CoreAI group, created in January.
- The team includes Parikh's former Meta colleagues, plus longtime Microsoft executives.
- CoreAI is responsible for building Microsoft's artificial-intelligence platform and developer tools.
An internal Microsoft organization chart shows the top execs Jay Parikh has assembled to help him lead the new CoreAI group.
In January, CEO Satya Nadella put Parikh in charge of this unit, central to Microsoft's ambition to help developers build AI agents capable of working alongside human employees.
The roster, recently viewed by Business Insider, includes executives who overlapped with Parikh at Meta, where he was previously head of engineering. A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed the org chart and said some of the Meta execs were hired prior to Parikh.
Asha Sharma, corporate vice president, product, AI platform
Sharma leads product development for Microsoft's AI platform and has a team of nearly 400 reports. Sharma was previously the chief operating officer of Instacart and a vice president at Meta, where she overlapped with Parikh.
Eric Boyd, corporate vice president, engineering
Boyd has been working on AI at Microsoft for at least a decade. Boyd's team, which now includes more than 2,200 employees according to the org chart, moved under Parikh when the organization was created in January. Last year, there were concerns among some employees that the team was becoming just "IT for OpenAI."
Julia Liuson, president, Microsoft developer division
Liuson runs the largest part of the CoreAI organization, comprising about 7,000 of the organization's 10,000 or so employees. Liuson has spent more than 33 years at Microsoft. The team, internally referred to as DevDiv, builds tools, platforms, and services for developers.
Caitie McCaffrey, member of technical staff
Previously a technical adviser to Nadella, McCaffrey is an engineer who reports directly to Parikh. According to her LinkedIn profile, McCaffrey is responsible for "leading critical technical initiatives and defining our engineering standards to improve security, quality, and productivity."
Jason Taylor, CoreAI corporate vice president of AI infrastructure
Taylor is Microsoft's deputy chief technology officer. He was previously a vice president of infrastructure at Meta, where he also overlapped with Parikh. He has a small team of about eight reports.
Michael Kirkland, vice president of engagement, CoreAI
Kirkland is the new vice president of engagement for the organization, hired last month. So far, he doesn't have any reports. Kirkland is a former vice president of technology communications at Meta. He was there when Parikh was, too.
Tim Bozarth, corporate vice president of EngThrive
Bozarth is responsible for Engineering Thrive, or EngThrive, an internal initiative Microsoft describes as "redefining engineering efficiency and developer experiences across the company." Bozarth, who joined Microsoft in 2022 from Google, has a few dozen direct reports.
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