OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser Steps Down

OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser will leave the company in the coming weeks to pursue other opportunities. Her departure comes as OpenAI grows its enterprise business and prepares for a potential public listing.

Dresser announced her decision in a LinkedIn post, saying she had made “the difficult decision to leave OpenAI in the coming weeks.” She did not disclose her next role.

“I am so proud of what we have accomplished and, even more, of how this team has shown up for our customers and one another,” Dresser wrote.

Dali Rajic, formerly President and Chief Operating Officer at cloud security company Wiz, will take over as OpenAI’s Chief Revenue Officer.

Rajic previously held revenue and operating roles at Zscaler and AppDynamics, giving him experience in enterprise sales and go-to-market operations.

“Dali will turn what we’ve learned into repeatable execution as we build out the full system to make AI broadly useful for people and businesses,” OpenAI President and Co-founder Greg Brockman said.

Dresser joined OpenAI in December 2025 after serving as CEO of Slack. OpenAI appointed her to oversee its global revenue strategy across enterprise and customer success. Before Slack, she spent more than a decade at Salesforce, where she held senior sales leadership positions.

Her departure comes as enterprise has become a larger part of OpenAI’s business. In April, Dresser said enterprise revenue accounted for more than 40% of OpenAI’s total revenue and was on track to reach parity with consumer revenue by the end of 2026.

OpenAI now says more than 2 million businesses use its products, up from roughly 1 million a year earlier. Dresser had also highlighted demand from companies including Cursor, DoorDash, State Farm, Thermo Fisher, and LY Corporation.

Dresser had taken on a broader role at OpenAI after former COO Brad Lightcap moved away from day-to-day commercial responsibilities. 

She picked up responsibility for partnerships and advertising after Lightcap moved to special projects. 

Lightcap announced his own departure earlier this week after eight years at OpenAI.

Dresser’s exit is therefore the second senior leadership departure at OpenAI in the same week. It follows a series of executive changes this year, including the departures or transitions of Lightcap, former Applications Chief Fidji Simo and other senior leaders.

In her note to employees, Dresser said she had been working with Brockman on the transition and the future needs of the business.

“I’ve been working with Greg to ensure a smooth transition as we’ve discussed the future needs of the business,” she wrote. “He will share more about those plans shortly.”

Dresser said she would remain at OpenAI for a period to work with employees and customers through the transition.

For Dresser, the move ends an eight-month tenure at OpenAI that included a push to expand enterprise adoption and position the company’s AI products as tools for broader organisational use.