Tech Moves: Microsoft loses a CVP to AWS and gains one from Alteryx; Lila Bio and BECU name execs

What happened

After more than 33 years at Microsoft, CVP Mazhar Mohammed has left for AWS, while the Redmond, Wash., company has gained a new CVP in its Agent Cloud group. Seattle's Lila Bio has appointed a chief development officer; the credit union BECU named an AI leader and other personnel changes. Microsoft is a software development and software company based in Redmond, and its products and services include Microsoft Windows. Amazon Web Services is a cloud computing company based in Seattle.

Mohammed joined Microsoft as a software design engineer on Windows NT straight out of a master’s degree program. (LinkedIn Photo) — After more than 33 years at Microsoft, Mazhar Mohammed has left to become vice president of AWS Streaming and Messaging at Amazon .

Over the decades, he also worked on messaging, mobile services and partner experience for cloud services. He most recently served as corporate VP for the commerce and fraud protection platform.

His LinkedIn post was short and to the point. Mohammed said he was “happy to share” the news, and the post featured a photo of an Amazon box with the message “Alexa, play ‘New Beginnings.’” — Microsoft has named Chad Thompson as CVP of Agent Cloud, a group within the company developing technology that allows businesses to deploy AI agents and put them to work across their organizations.

He previously spent six years at Amazon, departing as general manager of Amazon Glow. Other past employers include Smartsheet, Exasol and Adobe.

— Gail Carpenter has been named as VP and chief financial officer of Global Entertainment and Advertising at Amazon . She was most recently CFO of Worldwide Stores Finance and has been with the company for 11 years.