Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is shaking up the leadership roster of Microsoft's gaming brand by bringing in and elevating some old team members from her days heading up Microsoft's CoreAI engineering platform. Sharma has already been making big waves at Xbox in the short time since she became CEO, and adding select CoreAI members to top roles at the gaming brand is intended to expand its range of technical expertise.
Sharma was appointed as the CEO of Xbox on February 23, mere days after the start of a leadership shuffle that began with the retirement announcement of Phil Spencer, who had been the brand's most recognizable leader for more than a decade prior. Before becoming CEO, Sharma had served as president of Microsoft’s CoreAI product from 2024 to early 2026, and had held high-ranking technical roles at both Meta and Instacart prior to taking that position.
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Less than three months after assuming her new office, Sharma is now reportedly bringing in five former colleagues, four of whom she worked with on CoreAI,...
