OpenAI has replaced its chief revenue officer, Denise Dresser, after nine months in the role, naming Dali Rajic — formerly president and chief operating officer at Wiz — as the company’s new top sales executive. The change was announced in August 2026 by OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman in a blog post.
The leadership change is part of a broader wave of executive departures at OpenAI over the past month. COO Brad Lightcap and Fidji Simo, who served as CEO of AGI deployment and was considered the company’s number two executive, have both left the organization. Brockman has taken on a larger management role following Simo’s departure.
Rajic joins from Wiz, which was acquired by Google in 2026 for $32 billion — the largest acquisition in Google’s history. In announcing the hire, Brockman credited Dresser with guiding the revenue organization through a formative period, while framing Rajic’s role as focused on execution. “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,” Brockman wrote.
The reshuffle comes as OpenAI faces pressure to meet revenue targets. The company reports more than one billion weekly active users and two million business customers, but executives have indicated both privately and publicly that not all revenue goals have been met. CEO Sam Altman has this year shifted the company’s focus toward enterprise deployment, scaling back technology projects seen as distractions from that objective.
OpenAI has filed confidentially with the SEC ahead of a potential IPO, though no timeline has been announced. This week, the company also completed a $7 billion tender offer allowing employees to sell a portion of their equity — a move that may suggest the public offering is not imminent.
Source: TechCrunch