- OpenAI’s chief revenue officer comes off a two-year stint as CEO of Slack
- Denise Dresser played a major role in Slack’s AI integration strategy
- OpenAI focuses on generating more profits as a business
Slack CEO Denise Dresser is leaving Slack to join ChatGPT creator OpenAI as chief revenue officer, and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff notified company workers earlier this week of the CEO’s departure.
Dresser will report to OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap in his new role, overseeing business affairs and managing the company’s global revenue strategy, effective December 2025.
OpenAI credited Dresser for his understanding of large companies, customers and scaling products.
Slack CEO moves to OpenAI
OpenAI didn’t hesitate to mention Dresser’s previous role at Slack, where he “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 C-suite executive to oversee revenue.
“We are on our way to putting AI tools in the hands of millions of workers, across all industries. Denise has led that kind of change before, and her experience will help us make AI useful, trustworthy, and accessible to businesses around the world,” wrote OpenAI Applications CEO Fidji Simo.
Dresser became CEO of Slack in 2023 after a history of other high-ranking roles within the Salesforce portfolio, and played an important role in the company’s AI integration strategy.
“I’ve spent my career helping scale category-defining platforms, and I look forward to bringing that experience to OpenAI as it enters its next phase of business transformation,” he wrote.
This comes as OpenAI continues to expand, with approximately one million commercial 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 could go public are few and far between at this stage.
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