Microsoft moves comms under Brad Smith as CCO Frank Shaw departs
tomwarren · x · 2026-09-25
Microsoft is moving its communications group out of marketing into the legal and corporate affairs organization under vice chair and president Brad Smith. CCO Frank Shaw departs later this year after nearly three decades; Brent Colburn takes over as interim communications lead. Satya Nadella's memo cites an increasingly fragmented media environment and echoes the AI-startup model of letting product-adjacent people tell the story.
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