This is the second top executive to leave OpenAI in a week

OpenAI announced that Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser will step down from her position after handing over her responsibilities to Dali Rajic, who previously served as president and chief operating officer of Wiz, a cybersecurity company. Dresser has been with OpenAI for less than a year—she joined OpenAI in December after more than a decade at Salesforce, according to CNBC.

OpenAI noted that over the past year, the number of active users of the company’s products has doubled to more than 1 billion people and over 2 million companies, and that “Denise Dresser played a key role in achieving these results.” She “built a team, strengthened relationships with major clients, and laid the commercial foundation that enabled the company’s business to reach its current scale.” After a transition period, Dresser will leave OpenAI “to pursue other opportunities.”

Dresser is now the second high-ranking OpenAI executive to announce her resignation in the past few days. On August 11, former OpenAI Chief Operating Officer Brad Lightcap, who had been leading the company’s special projects since April, announced his decision to leave the company. He had worked at OpenAI for about eight years. On social media platform X, he stated that he intends to “start something new.” “I’ve been incredibly fortunate to spend most of the last decade working toward our mission and building this company. Today, it feels like achieving that mission is already within sight,” Lightcap wrote.

The personnel changes are taking place as OpenAI prepares for its IPO. In June, the developer of ChatGPT filed a confidential registration statement with the SEC and, according to Bloomberg, may go public in 2027, beating its main competitor, Anthropic, to the punch. In this context, Dresser’s departure is notable because she brought to OpenAI the corporate sales experience needed to compete with Anthropic, CNBC notes.

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