The Architect of Microsoft’s Vaunted Cloud Bundle Turns His Gaze to AI

When Microsoft announced the retirement of its longtime chief marketing officer, Chris Capossela, last October, its choice of his successor may have seemed counterintuitive to outsiders. Unlike Capossela, who had a flair for the spotlight, Takeshi Numoto has kept a low profile inside the software giant as a marketing executive over the past two decades. Numoto rarely spoke publicly at Microsoft conferences or product rollouts, and his face is unfamiliar to some of the company’s largest customers.

But behind the …

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