Microsoft has onboarded Carolina Dybeck Happe as Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer (COO).
In this newly created role, she will join the senior leadership team (SLT) and will be reporting to Satya Nadella, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
In this role, she will be responsible for collaborating globally to identify better ways of working that empower the company’s employees and benefit its customers, and she will be leveraging expertise in global transformation at scale, digitisation, and continuous improvement to accelerate AI-based transformation across the company, among other things.
Before this, she was associated with GE as Senior Vice President (SVP) and Chief Finance Officer (CFO) from March 2020 to August 2024.
Previously, she served as CFO at A.P. Moller – Maersk from January 2019 to February 2020. In this role, she oversaw FP&A, controllership, treasury, strategy, M&A, tax, and IR.
Earlier on, she was associated with ASSA ABLOY Group for more than sixteen years. She joined the company in February 2002 as CFO and Manager, DACH. Following this, she was promoted to the role of CFO, EMEA in 2007. Later, she served as CFO and Deputy CEO from 2012 to 2018.
Prior to this, she was CFO and Deputy CEO at Establish from January 2000 to January 2002.
In the past, she was associated with EF Education First in various financial roles in the US, Switzerland, and Russia from January 1996 to December 1999.
Speaking on the appointment, Nadella in a blog post, wrote, “I’ve come to admire Happe through her work as a global business leader, including most recently her role in leading GE’s historic turnaround. She is recognised for her ability to drive transformational change at scale while delivering improved customer experiences and faster time to value. Happe will partner with the SLT to help us drive continuous business process improvement across all our organisations and accelerate our company-wide AI transformation, increasing value to customers and partners.
“As part of this transition, the Commerce + Ecosystems organisation in Cloud + AI, the Microsoft Digital organisation in Experiences + Devices, and the Microsoft Business Operations organisation in Finance will move to report to Happe. These teams are doing mission-critical work for us with high ambition plans on how to empower our partners, customers, and employees with world class technology and experiences,” he added.
