Tech Moves: Microsoft CVP retires; former Amazon SVP to lead Boston Dynamics; Qualtrics, Overland AI, Fred Hutch name execs

What happened

Vedula joined Microsoft in 2000 and was the first engineering manager for Exchange Online. Microsoft CVP Ravi Vedula retires; former Amazon SVP Rohit Prasad is now the CEO of Boston Dynamics; and Qualtrics, Overland AI and Fred Hutch name new executives. Microsoft is a software and software development company based in Redmond.

(LinkedIn Photo) — Ravi Vedula , a corporate vice president at Microsoft , is leaving the company after 26 years. Vedula, who is based in the Seattle area, led an organization of more than 1,000 people that runs the data and analytics platform behind Microsoft 365 and Copilot.

“26 years. It’s time,” he wrote on LinkedIn . It recounts his childhood in a government housing colony in Hyderabad, India, with each chapter followed by a lesson about leadership, engineering or life, as GeekWire reported at the time .