OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser Departs Amid Executive Shuffle

OpenAI announced that Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser is leaving the company after roughly eight months in the role. The company said she will exit “to pursue other opportunities” following a transition period. Dali Rajic, formerly president and chief operating officer of the Google-owned cybersecurity firm Wiz, has been appointed to assume the CRO position and oversee OpenAI’s global revenue organization.

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The departure occurs as OpenAI intensifies efforts to monetize ChatGPT through advertising and readies an initial public offering expected next year. Rival AI lab Anthropic is simultaneously scaling toward its own IPO, heightening competitive pressure for market share and talent. In early August, OpenAI launched its advertising business internationally in the United Kingdom, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, and South Korea, signaling a strategic shift toward enterprise revenue streams.

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OpenAI said that under Dresser’s leadership the firm now serves 2 million business customers, a figure that is double the count from a year earlier. The company aims to generate half of its revenue from enterprise customers by the end of the year. Dresser, who joined OpenAI in December after a decade at Salesforce and a stint as CEO of Slack, was tasked with building the enterprise revenue foundation that the firm now relies on.

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In a LinkedIn post, Dresser described her time at OpenAI as “nothing short of incredible” and expressed pride in the team’s achievements.

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• “The opportunity to work hands-on with the most transformative technology in the world has been nothing short of incredible,” — Revenue Officer Denise Dresser, executive

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• “Denise has led our revenue organization through a formative period for the business and has worked tirelessly to get the team to where it is today,” — Greg Brockman, OpenAI's president

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• “During a formative period for both OpenAI and the enterprise AI market, she built the team, strengthened relationships with major customers, and established the commercial foundation that has brought our business to this point,” — Longtime OpenAI, second major executive

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