OpenAI CRO Dresser Exits, Second Senior Departure in Days
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- Denise Dresser is departing as OpenAI's Chief Revenue Officer less than a year after joining from Salesforce, with OpenAI saying she's leaving "to pursue other opportunities"
- Dali Rajic, formerly president and COO of cybersecurity company Wiz, will replace Dresser as CRO
- Brad Lightcap announced his exit Tuesday after eight years at OpenAI, writing he'll "start something new"; Dresser had absorbed many of his responsibilities in April
- Fidji Simo stepped down last month citing a "severe exacerbation of a chronic illness," and three other OpenAI executives departed in April, bringing recent senior exits to at least six people
- OpenAI confidentially filed its IPO prospectus with the SEC in June — days after Anthropic filed its own — and closed a March funding round at an $852 billion valuation
- Enterprise customers accounted for roughly 40% of OpenAI's business in January, a share CFO Sarah Friar expected to grow toward 50% by year-end and Dresser called "on track" in April
Why it matters: OpenAI is losing the Salesforce-veteran executive it specifically recruited to scale enterprise sales — a business that already makes up 40% of revenue and was targeted to hit 50% — weeks after its confidential IPO filing, leaving a Wiz cybersecurity executive to inherit the ramp just as the company must justify an $852 billion valuation to public-market investors.
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