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After 33 years, Microsoft corporate VP Mazhar Mohammed joins AWS

He will run streaming and messaging at Amazon. Microsoft hired Chad Thompson from Alteryx to lead Agent Cloud.

By West Coast News staff ·
A tree-lined plaza on Microsoft's Redmond campus
A plaza on Microsoft's campus in Redmond, Washington.

Mazhar Mohammed has left Microsoft after more than 33 years to become vice president of AWS streaming and messaging at Amazon, GeekWire reported Tuesday. He joined Microsoft as a software design engineer on Windows NT and most recently was corporate vice president for the commerce and fraud-protection platform. His LinkedIn post showed an Amazon box and the line Alexa, play New Beginnings.

Microsoft named Chad Thompson corporate vice president of Agent Cloud, a group building technology for businesses to deploy AI agents. He joins from Alteryx and previously spent six years at Amazon, leaving as general manager of Amazon Glow. The same Tech Moves column noted executive hires at Lila Bio and BECU.

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