OpenAI Hires New Chief Revenue Officer

<p>OpenAI is hiring Slack CEO Denise Dresser as the company&&num;8217&semi;s Chief Revenue Officer&comma; overseeing global revenue strategy across enterprise and customer success&period; OpenAI has become the fastest-growing business platform in history&comma; and Denise will help more businesses put AI to work in their day-to-day operations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"&commat;md&colon;col-span-6 &commat;md&colon;col-start-4 col-span-12 max-w-none &lbrack;&amp&semi;&colon;not&lpar;&colon;first-child&rpar;&rsqb;&colon;mt-sm">&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mb-sm last&colon;mb-0">Denise has experience running large businesses&comma; understands customers deeply&comma; and scaled products that people in the workplace love to use&period; Most recently&comma; she served as CEO of Slack&comma; where she led the company through its integration with Salesforce and helped redefine how millions of people use AI to work more efficiently and stay better connected&period; Prior to Slack&comma; Denise spent more than a decade at Salesforce building and leading global sales organizations serving some of the company’s largest and most complex customers&period;&equals;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"&commat;md&colon;col-span-6 &commat;md&colon;col-start-4 col-span-12 max-w-none &lbrack;&amp&semi;&colon;not&lpar;&colon;first-child&rpar;&rsqb;&colon;mt-sm">&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mb-sm last&colon;mb-0">Denise is joining OpenAI at a time when AI is becoming a regular part of work&period; Companies around the world are moving past single-use tools and pilots and are instead looking for AI they can depend on across their entire organization and to power their most important processes and applications&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"&commat;md&colon;col-span-6 &commat;md&colon;col-start-4 col-span-12 max-w-none &lbrack;&amp&semi;&colon;not&lpar;&colon;first-child&rpar;&rsqb;&colon;mt-sm">&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mb-sm last&colon;mb-0">That shift is already having a <a class&equals;"transition ease-curve-a duration-250 text-primary-100 hover&colon;text-primary-60 relative underline-offset-&lbrack;0&period;25rem&rsqb; decoration-1 underline" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openai&period;com&sol;index&sol;the-state-of-enterprise-ai-2025-report&sol;"><u class&equals;"decoration-1 underline-offset-&lbrack;0&period;25rem&rsqb;">measurable impact&colon;<&sol;u>&NoBreak;<&sol;a> 75&percnt; of workers say that AI has improved the speed or quality of their work&comma; with many saving 40–60 minutes per day&comma; and heavy users saving more than 10 hours per week&period; AI is also enabling new forms of work&comma; with three-quarters of users reporting that they can now complete tasks that were previously out of reach&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"&commat;md&colon;col-span-6 &commat;md&colon;col-start-4 col-span-12 max-w-none &lbrack;&amp&semi;&colon;not&lpar;&colon;first-child&rpar;&rsqb;&colon;mt-sm">&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mb-sm last&colon;mb-0">OpenAI is built to support that kind of use&period; We help teams get started quickly with ChatGPT for Work&comma; while also giving companies the ability to connect AI directly into their systems through our API&period; Today&comma; more than <a class&equals;"transition ease-curve-a duration-250 text-primary-100 hover&colon;text-primary-60 relative underline-offset-&lbrack;0&period;25rem&rsqb; decoration-1 underline" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openai&period;com&sol;index&sol;1-million-businesses-putting-ai-to-work&sol;"><u class&equals;"decoration-1 underline-offset-&lbrack;0&period;25rem&rsqb;">one million business customers<&sol;u>&NoBreak;<&sol;a> including <a class&equals;"transition ease-curve-a duration-250 text-primary-100 hover&colon;text-primary-60 relative underline-offset-&lbrack;0&period;25rem&rsqb; decoration-1 underline" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;corporate&period;walmart&period;com&sol;news&sol;2025&sol;10&sol;14&sol;walmart-partners-with-openai-to-create-ai-first-shopping-experiences" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer"><u class&equals;"decoration-1 underline-offset-&lbrack;0&period;25rem&rsqb;">Walmart<&sol;u>&NoBreak;<span class&equals;"sr-only">&lpar;opens in a new window&rpar;<&sol;span><&sol;a>&comma; <a class&equals;"transition ease-curve-a duration-250 text-primary-100 hover&colon;text-primary-60 relative underline-offset-&lbrack;0&period;25rem&rsqb; decoration-1 underline" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openai&period;com&sol;index&sol;morgan-stanley&sol;"><u class&equals;"decoration-1 underline-offset-&lbrack;0&period;25rem&rsqb;">Morgan Stanley<&sol;u>&NoBreak;<&sol;a>&comma; <a class&equals;"transition ease-curve-a duration-250 text-primary-100 hover&colon;text-primary-60 relative underline-offset-&lbrack;0&period;25rem&rsqb; decoration-1 underline" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openai&period;com&sol;index&sol;intuit-partnership&sol;"><u class&equals;"decoration-1 underline-offset-&lbrack;0&period;25rem&rsqb;">Intuit<&sol;u>&NoBreak;<&sol;a>&comma; <a class&equals;"transition ease-curve-a duration-250 text-primary-100 hover&colon;text-primary-60 relative underline-offset-&lbrack;0&period;25rem&rsqb; decoration-1 underline" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;databricks&period;com&sol;company&sol;newsroom&sol;press-releases&sol;databricks-and-openai-launch-groundbreaking-partnership-bring" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer"><u class&equals;"decoration-1 underline-offset-&lbrack;0&period;25rem&rsqb;">Databricks<&sol;u>&NoBreak;<span class&equals;"sr-only">&lpar;opens in a new window&rpar;<&sol;span><&sol;a>&comma; <a class&equals;"transition ease-curve-a duration-250 text-primary-100 hover&colon;text-primary-60 relative underline-offset-&lbrack;0&period;25rem&rsqb; decoration-1 underline" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openai&period;com&sol;index&sol;target-partnership&sol;"><u class&equals;"decoration-1 underline-offset-&lbrack;0&period;25rem&rsqb;">Target<&sol;u>&NoBreak;<&sol;a>&comma; and <a class&equals;"transition ease-curve-a duration-250 text-primary-100 hover&colon;text-primary-60 relative underline-offset-&lbrack;0&period;25rem&rsqb; decoration-1 underline" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openai&period;com&sol;index&sol;lowes&sol;"><u class&equals;"decoration-1 underline-offset-&lbrack;0&period;25rem&rsqb;">Lowe’s<&sol;u>&NoBreak;<&sol;a> use our technology in customer experiences&comma; internal operations&comma; and daily workflows&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"col-span-12 group &lbrack;&amp&semi;&colon;not&lpar;&colon;first-child&rpar;&rsqb;&colon;mt-xl &lbrack;&amp&semi;&colon;not&lpar;&colon;last-child&rpar;&rsqb;&colon;mb-xl">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"max-w-container &commat;container multi-columns&colon;px-0 w-full">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"px-sm grid grid-cols-12 gap-y-8">&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"text-h3 text-primary-100 &commat;md&colon;col-start-3 &commat;md&colon;col-span-8 col-span-12 col-start-1 text-center font-medium tracking-tight"><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I’ve spent my career helping scale category-defining platforms&comma; and I’m looking forward to bringing that experience to OpenAI as it enters its next phase of enterprise transformation&period;”<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"text-primary-100 &commat;md&colon;col-start-4 &commat;md&colon;col-span-6 text-meta col-span-12 col-start-1 text-pretty text-center">said Denise Dresser in a statement&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;

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