Jacob Andreou

Career

Andreou was an SVP at Snap, where Microsoft says Andreou helped scale the company from its early days. At Microsoft AI, Andreou was CVP of Product and Growth and, in Satya Nadella's words, sped up the group's user-focused, AI-first approach to building and growing products.¹

Copilot leadership

In a March 17, 2026 leadership update, Nadella announced that Microsoft's commercial and consumer Copilot work would become one effort across four pillars: the Copilot experience, the Copilot platform, Microsoft 365 apps and AI models. Andreou was named EVP, Copilot, leading the Copilot experience across consumer and commercial customers, with responsibility for design, product, growth and engineering, and reporting to Nadella.¹

In an October 1, 2026 update on Microsoft 365 and LinkedIn leadership, Microsoft said Jon Friedman would report to Andreou.²

Work and contributions

• Microsoft Copilot Proprietary product

  Microsoft's March 2026 announcement names Andreou to lead the Copilot experience across consumer and commercial, driving design, product, growth and engineering, as one of four connected pillars of the unified Copilot system.¹

Timeline

1. Mar 17, 2026Named EVP, Copilot at Microsoft, leading the Copilot experience across consumer and commercial.¹
2. Oct 1, 2026A Microsoft leadership update said Jon Friedman would report to Andreou.²

Other documented roles

Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.

• CVP of Product and Growth, Microsoft AI (Microsoft)¹
• SVP, Snap¹

Where they work

• Microsoft 81 people in the wiki

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