- OpenAI’s chief revenue officer served as CEO of Slack for two years.
- Denise Dresser played an important role in Slack’s AI integration strategy
- OpenAI focuses on generating more profits as a company
Slack CEO Denise Dresser will leave Slack to join OpenAI as chief revenue officer of the creator of ChatGPT, with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff informing company employees earlier this week of the CEO’s departure.
Dresser will report to Brad Lightcap, COO of OpenAI, in his new role, overseeing the company’s business and managing the company’s global revenue strategy, beginning in December 2025.
OpenAI credited Dresser for his understanding of large companies, customers and scaling products.
Slack CEO moves to OpenAI
OpenAI wasn’t shy about mentioning Dresser’s previous role at Slack, where she “helped redefine how millions of people use AI to work more efficiently and stay better connected.”
As companies move from experimentation to implementation, OpenAI sees this as a good time to hire an experienced senior manager to oversee revenue.
“We are on the path to putting AI tools in the hands of millions of workers, across every industry. Denise has already led this kind of change, and her experience will help us make AI useful, reliable and accessible to businesses around the world,” wrote Fidji Simo, CEO of OpenAI Applications.
Dresser became CEO of Slack in 2023 after holding other senior roles within the Salesforce portfolio, and played an important role in the company’s AI integration strategy.
“I have spent my career helping to evolve category definition platforms, and I look forward to bringing that experience to OpenAI as it enters its next phase of business transformation,” she wrote.
This comes as OpenAI continues to grow, with approximately one million registered enterprise customers and 800 million weekly ChatGPT users.
The appointment of a chief revenue officer is also timely, as OpenAI recently underwent a for-profit restructuring, although signs that the company could go fully public are rare at this point.
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