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OpenAI hires new CRO as executive shake-up continues

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Dali Rajic has left his role as President and Chief Operating Officer at Wiz to join OpenAI.

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techcrunch.comAug 13, 2026By Tim Fernholz

OpenAI hires new CRO as executive shake-up continues

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OpenAI has replaced chief revenue officer Denise Dresser after just nine months on the job, tapping Wiz president and chief operating officer Dali Rajic to take on frontier lab's top sales job. The move comes as part of a broader shake-up in the organization in the last month, which has seen the departures of COO Brad Lightcap, and the company's number two executive, CEO of AGI deployment Fidji Simo. OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman has taken a larger role in management following Simo's departure, and announced Rajic's arrival today in a blog post. Wiz, Rajic's previous employer, was acquired by Google for $32 billion this year in the tech giant's largest-ever acquisition. "Denise has led our revenue organization through a formative period for the business and has worked tirelessly to get the team to where it is today," Brockman wrote. "The way we're deploying this technology is changing rapidly, and 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 says its products reach more than one billion weekly active users, and two million businesses. Despite the incredible growth and its powerful models, however, executives have suggested both privately and publicly that the company hasn't hit all of its revenue goals. The company says it has filed confidentially...

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