OpenAI has appointed Prabhjeet Singh, former president of Uber India and South Asia, as its first managing director for India, in a move announced in June 2026. Singh will join the company in September and report to Kiran Mani, OpenAI’s managing director for Asia Pacific.
In the role, Singh will oversee OpenAI’s performance across consumer growth, enterprise adoption, partnerships, regulatory engagement, and operations in India. He announced his resignation from Uber on Friday ahead of the transition.
The appointment is part of a broader expansion OpenAI has been building in India over the past two years. The company opened its first Indian office in New Delhi in August 2025 and has since announced plans for additional offices in Mumbai and Bengaluru. It has also grown its local team, hiring former Truecaller and Meta executive Pragya Misra — now head of strategy and global affairs — and former Twitter India head Rishi Jaitly as a senior adviser on AI policy engagement with the Indian government.
OpenAI has struck a range of partnerships in India spanning higher education, enterprise payments, AI-powered commerce, and web streaming, and has become part of the country’s data center build-out. Indian conglomerates Reliance and Tata Group are among its early partners. The company has also posted multiple open roles in the country, including AI deployment engineers, developer marketing leads, and solutions engineers.
OpenAI has described India as its second-largest market after the United States, pointing to rapid growth in ChatGPT adoption as evidence of the market’s significance. India’s developer base, more than one billion internet users, and rising demand for generative AI have drawn other U.S. AI companies as well — Anthropic opened an India office in Bengaluru in late 2025 and named former Microsoft India managing director Irina Ghose as its India head earlier this year.
Source: TechCrunch