{"id":31740,"date":"2026-10-03T03:37:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T03:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/?p=31740"},"modified":"2026-10-03T03:37:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T03:37:52","slug":"microsoft-executive-ryan-roslansky-who-served-as-linkedin-chief-is-leaving-company-read-ceo-satya-nadellas-memo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/?p=31740","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft executive Ryan Roslansky, who served as LinkedIn chief, is leaving company: Read CEO Satya Nadella&#8217;s memo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-134651287,imgsize-77864,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/microsoft-executive-ryan-roslansky-who-served-as-linkedin-chief-is-leaving-company-read-ceo-satya-nadellas-memo.jpg\" alt=\"Microsoft executive Ryan Roslansky, who served as LinkedIn chief, is leaving company: Read CEO Satya Nadella's memo\" title=\"In pic: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"In pic: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella\">In pic: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Microsoft executive Ryan Roslansky, who led the software company\u2019s LinkedIn subsidiary for six years, will leave at the end of 2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/satya-nadella\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Satya Nadella<\/a>, Microsoft\u2019s CEO, announced the departure in a memo to the employees. <!-- -->The Redmond, Washington-based company has seen multiple leadership changes in recent months. The high-profile exit comes after gaming head Phil Spencer and Office leader Rajesh Jha both left this year, and Charlie Bell, the company\u2019s head of security, took on a new role focused on engineering quality.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"5\"\/>Roslansky joined LinkedIn as product chief in 2009, when it was still a privately held company. Microsoft acquired LinkedIn for $27 billion in 2016. <!-- -->In 2020, Roslansky replaced Jeff Weiner as LinkedIn CEO. During Roslansky\u2019s tenure, LinkedIn\u2019s membership expanded from 700 million to 1.3 billion. Previously, he had held management roles at Yahoo and Glam Media.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>In 2025, Roslansky took on additional responsibility in Microsoft\u2019s Office productivity software group. Earlier this year, Nadella named Roslansky and two other executives as leaders of the Microsoft 365 applications and the Copilot artificial intelligence platform, and Dan Shapero, LinkedIn\u2019s chief operating officer (COO), became the professional social network\u2019s CEO.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h2>Read Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella\u2019s memo to employees on Ryan Roslansky\u2019s exit<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>After nearly 18 years at LinkedIn and Microsoft, Ryan Roslansky has decided to leave Microsoft and embark on his next chapter.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>As Ryan and I have been discussing our roadmap and work ahead, we felt this was the right moment for this change. Ryan will stay through the end of the calendar year as an advisor to me and will support on the transition.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/>Ryan leaves the organization in a strong position. With Copilot, we are executing rapidly against our vision to build a new OS for work that spans every model, every form factor, and every task, with Office fully embedded in Copilot and vice versa! Over the past year, Ryan\u2019s team has done critical work bringing together the product, engineering, and design foundations that have made this next phase possible. <!-- -->Last week\u2019s launch was an important milestone in that journey, and the strong response from customers, partners, and the broader ecosystem reinforced both how far we\u2019ve come and how much opportunity remains ahead.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"22\"\/>At LinkedIn, we remain focused on our core vision of creating economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce, helping our 1.3 billion members access the knowledge, insights, and opportunities they need to navigate rapidly changing professional and labor markets.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"25\"\/>Effective today we will make the following changes:<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"27\"\/>Sumit Chauhan and Lan Ye will report to Charles Lamanna.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"29\"\/>Jon Friedman will report to Jacob Andreou.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"31\"\/>Dan Shapero will continue as CEO of LinkedIn and Mohak Shroff will continue in his role, both reporting to me.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"33\"\/>Over his nearly two decades at Microsoft, Ryan has helped shape how people around the world find opportunity, build their careers, and get their work done. I\u2019ve always appreciated his clarity of thinking and I\u2019m deeply grateful for everything Ryan has built, for the leaders and teams he has developed, and for his friendship and counsel.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"36\"\/>Please join me in thanking Ryan for his extraordinary contributions to LinkedIn and Microsoft, and in wishing him the very best in what comes next.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"38\"\/>Satya<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"40\"\/>What Ryan Roslansky told workers in a memo<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"42\"\/>Team,<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"44\"\/>In 1996, as a college freshman, I taught myself to code so a few friends and I could help other students find a place to live around campus. I didn\u2019t know much. I did know the internet was about to change how people found things, and I wanted to be as close to that as possible.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"47\"\/>In 2009, Jeff Weiner made me his first hire at LinkedIn. I\u2019ve spent the nearly 18 years since working on a much bigger version of that same idea: helping people find opportunity, and then helping them do great work once they have it.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"49\"\/>This has (obviously) been the best professional experience of my life.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"51\"\/>As a product manager, I got to build dozens of features that are still around today (some good, some not so good!). When I became CEO in 2020, the world was months into a pandemic that changed what work even meant. <!-- -->Nobody hands you a playbook for that. This team wrote one anyway. Since then, LinkedIn has passed a billion members and nearly tripled its business, and every bit of that belongs to the people who built it.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"55\"\/>Last year, Satya asked me to help build the future of M365. Once again, the old rules didn\u2019t apply. AI was rapidly changing how professionals work, and the world\u2019s largest productivity suite needed to lead the way. That meant figuring out what Copilot, and the future of work, should look like as one ecosystem.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"58\"\/>We still have a ways to go, but the progress over the past year has been inspiring to watch. A lot of talented people set aside their own roadmaps to make that happen. Thank you. I know it wasn\u2019t easy.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"60\"\/>Satya, thank you. When LinkedIn joined Microsoft, you gave us room to build, and then trusted many of us with a lot more. I\u2019ve learned more from you than I can fit in an email, and I\u2019m grateful for the friendship that came with it.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"62\"\/>All of which made this a hard decision. I know what it would take for me to lead the next phase of this work well: being in Redmond full time, every day. But my life and my family\u2019s life are here in the Bay Area. My wife Leigh gives her time to more local organizations than I can keep track of. Our youngest daughter just started high school, and our dog Buddy remains deeply committed to the trails on the Peninsula!<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"64\"\/>I thought about this for a long time. It\u2019s the right call. The work now goes to leaders who are set up to take it further. <!-- -->I can\u2019t wait to see what they do with it.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"68\"\/>Over the years, people have asked me what\u2019s kept me so energized and motivated in this work. I think the answer is that I got to spend my career working where doing good and doing well are the same thing. In technology, that\u2019s the best place to operate.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"71\"\/>Most companies start by focusing on doing well, so doing good becomes a compromise. It\u2019s the last slide of the PowerPoint, or a separate .org. <!-- -->But when doing good is built into the product itself, it becomes a real competitive advantage. When we build valuable products, people find jobs, they hire, they learn skills, they start companies, they run companies. That creates value for members, customers and the world. And for our business too.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"75\"\/>Not many companies get to work this way, and not many people get the chance to build something like it. We do.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"77\"\/>That matters more now than it ever has. Technology will continue to touch every job on the planet, and the people building it will decide what kind of world it helps create. I can\u2019t think of a better group to figure that out than the people reading this note.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"79\"\/>Thank you for the best 18 years I could have asked for.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"81\"\/>RR<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/technology\/tech-news\/microsoft-executive-ryan-roslansky-who-served-as-linkedin-chief-is-leaving-company-read-ceo-satya-nadellas-memo\/articleshow\/134651275.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In pic: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Microsoft executive Ryan Roslansky, who led the software company\u2019s LinkedIn subsidiary for six years, will leave at the end of 2026. Satya Nadella, Microsoft\u2019s CEO, announced the departure in a memo to the employees. The Redmond, Washington-based company has seen multiple leadership changes in recent months. The high-profile exit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-31"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/microsoft-executive-ryan-roslansky-who-served-as-linkedin-chief-is-leaving-company-read-ceo-satya-na-150x150.avif","medium":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/microsoft-executive-ryan-roslansky-who-served-as-linkedin-chief-is-leaving-company-read-ceo-satya-na-300x169.avif","medium_large":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/microsoft-executive-ryan-roslansky-who-served-as-linkedin-chief-is-leaving-company-read-ceo-satya-na.avif","large":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/microsoft-executive-ryan-roslansky-who-served-as-linkedin-chief-is-leaving-company-read-ceo-satya-na.avif","1536x1536":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/microsoft-executive-ryan-roslansky-who-served-as-linkedin-chief-is-leaving-company-read-ceo-satya-na.avif","2048x2048":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/microsoft-executive-ryan-roslansky-who-served-as-linkedin-chief-is-leaving-company-read-ceo-satya-na.avif","blogsy-small":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/microsoft-executive-ryan-roslansky-who-served-as-linkedin-chief-is-leaving-company-read-ceo-satya-na.avif","blogsy-small-tall":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/microsoft-executive-ryan-roslansky-who-served-as-linkedin-chief-is-leaving-company-read-ceo-satya-na.avif","blogsy-small-square":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/microsoft-executive-ryan-roslansky-who-served-as-linkedin-chief-is-leaving-company-read-ceo-satya-na.avif","blogsy-small-masonry":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/microsoft-executive-ryan-roslansky-who-served-as-linkedin-chief-is-leaving-company-read-ceo-satya-na.avif","blogsy-medium":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/microsoft-executive-ryan-roslansky-who-served-as-linkedin-chief-is-leaving-company-read-ceo-satya-na.avif","blogsy-medium-masonry":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/microsoft-executive-ryan-roslansky-who-served-as-linkedin-chief-is-leaving-company-read-ceo-satya-na.avif","blogsy-large":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/microsoft-executive-ryan-roslansky-who-served-as-linkedin-chief-is-leaving-company-read-ceo-satya-na.avif","blogsy-wide":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/microsoft-executive-ryan-roslansky-who-served-as-linkedin-chief-is-leaving-company-read-ceo-satya-na.avif"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"admin","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8709732a479614e7a8aa24d3eb1b239f30dc6d90c61464ed495001e7a469d856?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"In pic: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Microsoft executive Ryan Roslansky, who led the software company\u2019s LinkedIn subsidiary for six years, will leave at the end of 2026. Satya Nadella, Microsoft\u2019s CEO, announced the departure in a memo to the employees. The Redmond, Washington-based company has seen multiple leadership changes in recent months. The high-profile exit [&hellip;]","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["\u0b26\u0b47\u0b36 \u0b2c\u0b3f\u0b26\u0b47\u0b36"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":1,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":7,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/microsoft-executive-ryan-roslansky-who-served-as-linkedin-chief-is-leaving-company-read-ceo-satya-na.avif",400,225,false],"medium":["https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/microsoft-executive-ryan-roslansky-who-served-as-linkedin-chief-is-leaving-company-read-ceo-satya-na-300x169.avif",300,169,true],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/microsoft-executive-ryan-roslansky-who-served-as-linkedin-chief-is-leaving-company-read-ceo-satya-na-150x150.avif",150,150,true]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/author\/admin"},"magazine_blocks_comment":0,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8709732a479614e7a8aa24d3eb1b239f30dc6d90c61464ed495001e7a469d856?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"<a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-31\">\u0b26\u0b47\u0b36 \u0b2c\u0b3f\u0b26\u0b47\u0b36<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}