- OpenAI’s Chief Revenue Officer comes from a two-year stint as Slack CEO
- Denise Dresser played an important role in Slack’s AI integration strategy
- OpenAI focuses on creating more profit as a company
Slack CEO Denise Dresser is leaving Slack to join OpenAI as the ChatGPT maker’s Chief Revenue Officer, with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff notifying the company’s employees earlier this week of the CEO’s departure.
Dresser will report to OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap in her new role, overseeing corporate affairs and managing the company’s global revenue strategy starting in December 2025.
OpenAI credited Dresser for her understanding of large companies, customers and product scaling.
Slack CEO moves to OpenAI
OpenAI didn’t shy away from mentioning Dresser’s previous role at Slack, where she was “at the heart of redefining how millions of people use AI to work more efficiently and stay better connected.”
With companies transitioning from experimentation to implementation, OpenAI sees this as a good time to hire an experienced C-suite executive to oversee revenue.
“We’re on the path to putting AI tools in the hands of millions of workers, across all industries. Denise has led this kind of shift before, and her experience will help us make AI useful, reliable and accessible to businesses everywhere,” wrote OpenAI Applications CEO Fidji Simo.
Dresser became Slack’s CEO in 2023 after a history of other high-profile roles within the Salesforce portfolio and played a key role in the company’s AI integration strategy.
“I have spent my career helping to scale category-defining platforms, and I look forward to bringing that experience to OpenAI as it enters its next phase of enterprise transformation,” she wrote.
This comes as OpenAI continues to expand, with an estimated one million business customers on its books and 800 million weekly ChatGPT users.
The appointment of a Chief Revenue Officer is also timely because OpenAI recently underwent a for-profit restructuring, although signs that the company may go fully public are few and far between at this stage.
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