OpenAI has named Dali Rajic, president and chief operating officer of Wiz, as its new chief revenue officer, replacing Denise Dresser after roughly nine months in the role1. Dresser, a former Slack CEO, was hired in December 2025 and will leave the company2.
The appointment makes Rajic OpenAI's second CRO in less than a year. Rajic joins from Wiz, the cybersecurity firm that Google acquired for $32 billion — described as the tech giant's largest-ever acquisition.
OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman announced the hire in a blog post on August 13. "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. He added that "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".
The CRO change is part of a broader executive shake-up at OpenAI over the past month. COO Brad Lightcap and Fidji Simo, the company's CEO of AGI deployment and its number-two executive, have both departed. Brockman has taken a larger management role following Simo's exit.
OpenAI says its products now reach more than one billion weekly active users and two million businesses. Despite that scale, executives have suggested both privately and publicly that the company has not hit all of its revenue goals. Bloomberg characterized the CRO swap as a sign of efforts to bolster sales growth ahead of a Wall Street debut.
OpenAI has filed confidentially with the SEC ahead of a potential IPO, though the timing remains undisclosed.
ANALYSIS Cycling through two CROs in under a year, while simultaneously losing the COO and the AGI-deployment chief, signals that OpenAI's commercial organization is being restructured at a pace unusual even for a high-growth startup — and that the restructuring is happening under IPO-readiness pressure. Rajic's background running operations at a company that just completed a $32-billion acquisition positions him as someone accustomed to enterprise-scale execution, which aligns with the mandate Brockman described.