OpenAI CRO Dresser Departs; Wiz's Rajic Replaces
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- Denise Dresser is leaving her role as OpenAI's chief revenue officer, telling staff in a LinkedIn-posted team note she'll depart "in the coming weeks" to "pursue other opportunities," having joined as CRO in December after serving as CEO of Slack.
- Dali Rajic, currently president and COO of cybersecurity firm Wiz, will take over the CRO role, with OpenAI framing the hire as building "the revenue operating system needed to scale for this next phase."
- Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's special projects lead and former COO, announced his own departure just two days earlier; Dresser had absorbed portions of his workload when he shifted to the special projects role.
- The exits follow recent departures of former AGI chief Fidji Simo and former CMO Kate Rouch, putting four senior leaders out the door in a short window.
- Dresser's exit comes ahead of OpenAI's anticipated IPO — the company submitted a confidential S-1 filing to the SEC in June, according to the article.
Why it matters: Losing two revenue-and-operations leaders within 48 hours, right as OpenAI pushes toward a public listing, creates a leadership vacuum in the function most scrutinized by public-market investors. Replacing a Slack-veteran CRO with a cybersecurity executive signals OpenAI may be reordering priorities toward enterprise and security sales ahead of the IPO roadshow.
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