Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Microsoft Gaming Chief Executive Officer Phil Spencer is retiring after 38 years at the tech giant and is being replaced by Asha Sharma, whom Microsoft hired from Instacart in 2024.
Sharma will become Microsoft's executive vice president for gaming and report to Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella.
Nadella said Spencer last year announced his decision to retire, and the company officials announced the pending change to staff on Friday.
Sharma will move from Microsoft's CoreAI wing, where he was the company's president of product development. He formerly was Instacart's chief operating officer and before that was Meta's vice president of product development.
Spencer is leaving the tech giant after former business development head Chris Young and Thomas Dohmke, former GitHub chief executive, departed last year.
