Jacob Andreou EVP, Copilot Microsoft AI

Michael Denari General Manager of AI Zip

JOB FROM: CVP, PRODUCT & GROWTH AT MICROSOFT AI

JOB TO: EVP, COPILOT AT MICROSOFT AI

JOB FROM: GLOBAL HEAD OF IT AT CANVA

JOB TO: GENERAL MANAGER OF AI AT ZIP

Microsoft has appointed Jacob Andreou as EVP of Copilot, placing him in charge of unifying the company’ s rapidly-expanding AI assistant ecosystem across both consumer and commercial offerings. The move forms part of a broader organisational shift aimed at accelerating Microsoft’ s ambitions in AI and what CEO Satya Nadella describes as a“ new era of productivity”.

Zip, a leading AI-powered platform for enterprise procurement, has appointed Michael Denari as General Manager of AI. Michael joins from Canva, where he served as Global Head of IT. In that role, he built and scaled the company’ s enterprise AI strategy across a global workforce of approximately 5,000 employees.

20 April 2026