NEW YORK (CNNMoney) – In a restructuring of its management team, the CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, has dismissed three key executives.
The most notable of those dismissed is Stephen Elop, the former CEO of Nokia, who returned to Microsoft when the companies merged last year.
Elop used to be the head of the Microsoft Office before taking the job of Nokia in 2010. When he returned to Microsoft last year, he oversaw the device group company, which includes Nokia phones and Surface tablet.
Also it left out as part of the restructuring Kirill Tatarinov, the head of Microsoft Business Solutions, the role played by Nadella before becoming CEO.
Eric Rudder, the third executive to leave the company, overseeing the team advanced strategies of Microsoft, which was responsible for facilitating relations between disparate company teams. He was assigned to the post in 2013 by then-CEO Steve Ballmer, who had tried to break the silo between the various Microsoft business.
“We are aligning our engineering efforts and ability to deliver on our strategy, and in particular with our three main ambitions,” said Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft said in a statement. “This change will allow us to deliver better products and services that our customers love at a higher rate.”
Some of the key executives got a new role in the reorganization. Notably, the chief operating systems monitor the device group previously led by Elop, in addition to Windows.
The head of the group of Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise, Scott Guthrie and the ringleader of applications and services Qi Lu will oversee some of the responsibilities of Tatarinov and Rudder.
The changes were surprising, particularly because Tatarinov was featured prominently in the Build developers conference in April this year. But none of the three fired executives had been appointed by Nadella.
This is more a change in strategy for a company that has a mixed record in restructuring their business operation.
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