Dali Rajic, formerly Wiz's COO, steps in as the AI lab loses its second senior executive in a week. OpenAI doubled business customers to 2 million under Dresser.
OpenAI is replacing chief revenue officer Denise Dresser after eight months in the role, the company said Thursday. Dali Rajic, formerly chief operating officer at Wiz, takes over as the AI lab prepares for an IPO expected next year.
Dresser joined last December from a CEO role at Slack inside Salesforce. OpenAI said under her tenure the company doubled its business customer count to 2 million. The firm aims to generate half its revenue from enterprises by year-end.
Her exit follows Tuesday's departure of former COO Brad Lightcap. Dresser had absorbed parts of Lightcap's old remit as recently as April. In July, OpenAI lost safety systems head Johannes Heidecke and chief futurist Joshua Achiam. Fidji Simo, its applications CEO, moved to an advisory role for health reasons.
The turnover hits as OpenAI races Anthropic for market share and talent ahead of their IPOs. The company is trying to turn its billion users into a sustainable business while building data centers and winning customers.
Rajic was president and COO at Wiz through Google's recent acquisition of the cloud security firm. He previously held executive roles at Zscaler and AppDynamics.
Greg Brockman, OpenAI's president, said in a release: "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."
Dresser posted on LinkedIn that she "made the difficult decision to leave OpenAI in the coming weeks to pursue other opportunities." She did not specify her next move.
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