# Eric Boyd

Leadership · Head of Infrastructure at Anthropic · joined 2026

Was president of Microsoft's AI platform before joining in April 2026.

Full profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/eric-boyd

**At Anthropic:**
- Apr 2026 – present: Head of Infrastructure
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/emboyd)

**Career before Anthropic:**
- Feb 2015 – Apr 2026: Microsoft, President AI Platform
- Sep 2009 – Feb 2015: Microsoft, GM BingAds Development
- Apr 2008 – Sep 2009: Mochi Media, VP Engineering
- Oct 2006 – Apr 2008: Yahoo!, VP of Platform Engineering
- Mar 2004 – Oct 2006: Yahoo!, Sr Director Engineering
- Dec 1998 – Mar 2004: Yahoo!, Director of Engineering
- 1995–1998: InterDimensions, Founder
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/emboyd)

**Education:**
- BS, Computer Science and Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996
Sources: [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/emboyd)

**Lesser-known facts:**
- Spent 17 years at Microsoft, most recently as president of its AI platform. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/emboyd)
- Managed about 1,500 people at Microsoft. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/emboyd)
- Founded a company, InterDimensions, in 1995, the year before he graduated from MIT. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/emboyd)
- Spent 10 years at Yahoo, rising to vice president of platform engineering. [1](https://redmondmag.com/articles/2026/04/07/anthropic-names-former-microsoft-azure-ai-executive-eric-boyd-as-infrastructure-chief.aspx)
- Joined Microsoft in September 2009 to run its Silicon Valley ads engineering team, leaving Mochi Media shortly after its acquisition. [1](https://techcrunch.com/2009/09/08/ex-yahoo-to-run-microsoft-silicon-valley-ads-team-amid-exodus-from-mochi-media/)
- Helped plan the Microsoft compute clusters that OpenAI used to train and run its models. [1](https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/microsofts-eric-boyd-joins-anthropic-as-head-of-infrastructure/)
- Led the Azure engineering that hosted Anthropic's models, so he knew the company's technical requirements before joining. [1](https://redmondmag.com/articles/2026/04/07/anthropic-names-former-microsoft-azure-ai-executive-eric-boyd-as-infrastructure-chief.aspx)
- Announced Scion, Anthropic's in-house version control system, which scaled from about 2,500 merges a day in May 2026 to over 30,000 in September. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/emboyd_back-in-april-in-my-second-week-at-anthropic-activity-7515818492495990784-MBfY?utm_source=social_share_send&utm_medium=member_desktop_web&rcm=ACoAAG_jSdUBlSgbTCSn7MjUb10f6y6xnbXcV3c)
- Joined the board of AI hiring company HireVue in 2018. [1](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hirevue-appoints-microsoft-ai-executive-eric-boyd-to-board-of-directors-300725516.html)

**Interviews and talks:**
- [MIT Sloan Me, Myself, and AI podcast on moving AI out of the lab and into products (2023)](https://sloanreview.mit.edu/audio/out-of-the-lab-and-into-a-product-microsofts-eric-boyd/)
- [AMD Advancing AI keynote (2025)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pxTby5fG1E)
- [MIT Technology Review EmTech Digital speaker (2023)](https://event.technologyreview.com/emtech-digital-2023/speaker/678751/eric-boyd)

Researched with Autumn (https://www.autumn.ai) from public sources. Updated 2026-10-18. Everyone at Anthropic: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people