Meet IIT grad Pavan Davuluri, set to take charge at Microsoft as...

Tech giant, Microsoft announced on Monday that Pavan Davuluri will succeed Panos Panay as the Corporate Product chief of the company. Davuluri will directly report to Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella after the implementation of this change. 

Davuluri was earlier working with the company at the post of Corporate Vice President.  Pavan Davuluri hails from India and he graduated from the esteemed Indian Institute of Technology, IIT Madras. After graduation, Davuluri went to the University of Maryland in the US to pursue his Master of Science in 1999. 

Once his education was complete, he worked in various companies and finally joined Microsoft in 2021 as the Corporate Vice President, of Windows Silicon and Systems Integration. 

Microsoft said that Pavan Davuluri will lead a hardware engineering team that includes Microsoft's efforts to develop its own chips, according to a staff email on Monday by Rajesh Jha, executive vice president of experiences and devices group at Microsoft. Reuters has seen a copy of the email.

In a statement, Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella thanked Panos Panay for his "impact on our products, culture, company, and industry over the past two decades. I’m grateful for your leadership, support, and all you’ve done for Microsoft and our customers and partners."

Microsoft has made big bets on generative AI, integrating the technology into a wide array of its products, including cloud, search and productivity software and services such as its Office suite.

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