Microsoft's Ryan Roslansky To Exit, Copilot Maker Shifts Leadership

‘None of this would have happened without you, the people who use LinkedIn and Office every day,’ Ryan Roslansky said, fittingly, on LinkedIn.

Microsoft is shifting around members of its leadership following the departure of 18-year executive Ryan Roslansky as executive vice president overseeing the group responsible for LinkedIn, Microsoft Office, Outlook and Teams.

Roslansky plans to continue as an adviser to the Redmond, Wash.-based vendor’s CEO and chairman, Satya Nadella, through the end of the calendar year, according to an online Microsoft post. He spent 17 years in executive roles at Microsoft-owned LinkedIn, including six years as CEO, before stepping down in April 2026.

Roslansky did not reveal what his next role might be. Microsoft bought LinkedIn in 2016.

Alongside Roslansky's pending departure, Microsoft is moving two executives to report to Charles Lamanna, Copilot, Agents and Platform executive vice president, and another executive to report to Copilot EVP Jacob Andreou.

CRN has reached out to Microsoft for comment.

“After nearly 18 years at LinkedIn and Microsoft, I'll be leaving at the end of the year,” Roslansky wrote, fittingly, on LinkedIn. “None of this would have happened without you, the people who use LinkedIn and Office every day.”

He continued: “You found jobs, hired great teams, and learned new skills. You wrote the plans, built the spreadsheets, and sent the emails that run businesses all over the world. Watching that happen at the scale of billions of people has been the best part of my career. I can't wait to see what this team and this community build next.”

Peter Fidler, president and founding partner at WCA Technologies, a New York-based Microsoft solution provider, told CRN in a recent interview that his company has been working to educate clients on the opportunities around Copilot, focusing on helping them better understand data governance, data labeling and the risks with sharing datasets with AI tools.

WCA has also leveraged the tool internally, for example, to improve revenue targeting by segment. Copilot can even help calculate the number of managed services that deals need to reach a desired revenue threshold and more, Fidler said.

“Internal budgeting, planning—the types of spreadsheets I'm creating now are just absolutely remarkable—that would [otherwise] take me weeks to do,” Fidler said.

Ryan Roslansky To Leave Microsoft After Nearly 18 Years

In a message shared on Microsoft’s website, Nadella said Roslansky “leaves the organization in a strong position.”

“With Copilot, we are executing rapidly against our vision to build a new OS for work that spans every model, every form factor, and every task, with Office fully embedded in Copilot and vice versa,” Nadella said.

The CEO praised Roslansky and his team for unifying product, engineering and design motions to help make Copilot a new operating system, plus their work adding more capabilities to Copilot while revamping how users interact with the flagship artificial intelligence tool.

“Last week’s launch was an important milestone in that journey, and the strong response from customers, partners, and the broader ecosystem reinforced both how far we’ve come and how much opportunity remains ahead,” Nadella said, referring to last week’s major overhaul of the Copilot product.

In a message published to Microsoft’s website, Roslansky said part of the reason for his departure is a reluctance to uproot his family from the San Francisco Bay Area and move to Microsoft’s headquarters city.

“I know what it would take for me to lead the next phase of this work well: being in Redmond full time, every day,” he said in the statement. “But my life and my family’s life are here in the Bay Area. My wife Leigh gives her time to more local organizations than I can keep track of. Our youngest daughter just started high school, and our dog Buddy remains deeply committed to the trails on the Peninsula!”

Charles Lamanna Gains Office, Teams Leadership Reports

Breaking down the reporting changes Microsoft is undergoing as Roslansky leaves, Microsoft Copilot, Agents and Platform EVP Lamanna now counts Sumit Chauhan and Lan Ye among his reports. Copilot EVP Jacob Andreou gained Jon Friedman as a direct report.

Lamanna was promoted to his current role in March and helped announce the vendor’s new Copilot Cowork product earlier this year. He became a direct Nadella report with the departure of Rajesh Jha, a 35-plus-year Microsoft veteran who ascended the ranks to executive vice president of the Experiences + Devices Group.

Chauhan moved into the role of executive vice president of the Microsoft Office Product Group in May. She has been with Microsoft for about 30 years, according to her LinkedIn account.

Other roles she’s held at Microsoft include general manager of Office engineering and development manager for Office.

Lamanna’s other new report, Ye, serves as a Microsoft president working with Teams, Viva Engage and Planner, and for "building teamwork experiences for a new era of work - where people and technology amplify each other, think bigger, move faster, and achieve more,” according to her LinkedIn account. She has been with the vendor for about 14 years.

While serving as a corporate vice president for about six years, Ye “scaled Microsoft Teams adoption by ~10× during the pandemic, growing from 20M to 300M+ monthly active users in 2.5 years, establishing Teams as the leading global collaboration platform used by virtually all Fortune 100 companies.”

She also “transformed Teams’ communication products into a multi-billion-dollar revenue driver for Microsoft 365, encompassing Teams Phone (enterprise telephony), Teams Devices, and Teams Premium,” among other accomplishments, according to her LinkedIn account.

Jacob Andreou Now Oversees Microsoft Design Chief

Andreou’s new report, Friedman, became Microsoft 365 chief design officer in May, according to his LinkedIn account. He’s been with the vendor for about 23 years, previously serving as corporate vice president of design and research for about seven years.

In March, Microsoft promoted Andreou to the role of Copilot executive vice president. Andreou—who has been with Microsoft for about a year, previously serving as corporate vice president of product and growth within the Microsoft AI division—reports directly to CEO Nadella with “a dotted line to” Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman.

Before Andreou joined Microsoft in 2025, he worked at Snapchat parent company Snap for about eight years, leaving in 2023 as senior vice president of product and growth, according to his LinkedIn account.

LinkedIn Leadership Remains Intact Following Roslansky Exit

LinkedIn CEO Dan Shapero and Platforms and Digital Work President Mohak Shroff will continue in their roles, both reporting to Microsoft’s CEO, according to the vendor.

Shapero succeeded Roslansky as LinkedIn CEO in April. He’s been with LinkedIn for about 19 years. “I've always admired the careers of people that built amazing things that make people's lives better over long periods of time,” Shapero wrote on LinkedIn about his former boss. “Your time at LinkedIn is the pinnacle of this. A builder of amazing things and teams. A human first and foremost. I know we will stay close, but I, alongside so many LinkedIn colleagues, will miss you dearly. Bravo.”

Shroff moved into the president role in April after 18 years with LinkedIn, previously serving as senior vice president of engineering for about nine years, according to his LinkedIn account.

“Ryan has had an extraordinary impact on LinkedIn, on Office, and on the people behind both,” Shroff wrote on LinkedIn. “He is an exceptional leader. Much more importantly, he is an exceptional human being. He is a deeply good person who cares about people in a way that is completely genuine. He gives more of himself than most people ever see. And when things get hard, he shows up. I feel lucky that work brought Ryan into my life. I’m proud of everything he’s done here.”