OpenAI Names Wiz’s Dali Rajic CRO — Repeatable Enterprise Motion, Eight-Month Handoff
OpenAI named Dali Rajic — former president and COO of Wiz, recently acquired by Google — as chief revenue officer, succeeding Denise Dresser after about eight months as the lab cites more than one billion weekly ChatGPT users and more than two million business customers.
OpenAI is swapping its enterprise sales lead just as it tells investors ChatGPT already has billion-scale consumer reach and a two-million-business commercial base. Hiring the operator who scaled Wiz into Google’s orbit is a signal that the next CRO job is repeatable enterprise motion, not founding-era relationship selling.
OpenAI appointed Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer, leading the global revenue organization. Rajic most recently was President and COO of Wiz (acquired by Google); before that, President/COO of Zscaler and Chief Customer and Revenue Officer at AppDynamics. Denise Dresser, CRO for about eight months, will leave after a transition. President Greg Brockman framed the hire as building the “revenue operating system” for a compute-powered economy. OpenAI also said it formed a strategic partnership with Chad Peets and RPT Partners to help build the go-to-market team.
What the company said
| Item | Detail (openai.com/index/dali-rajic-chief-revenue-officer) |
|---|---|
| Hire | Dali Rajic, CRO |
| Exit | Denise Dresser leaves after a transition |
| Scale cited | >1 billion weekly active users; >2 million businesses (2× a year ago) |
| Also | GTM partnership with Chad Peets / RPT Partners |
The Information’s same-day note described Dresser’s tenure as eight months and flagged Rajic’s last role as Wiz President. The OpenAI post itself does not attach a dollar valuation or IPO timetable to the hire. Leadership/GTM — not a model ship. Distinct from Brad Lightcap’s departure (Aug 11) and from Ultrafast (same day).
Limits
- Whether Dresser’s eight-month tenure becomes part of a “talent exodus / IPO red flag” narrative is secondary framing, not a company claim.
- How the IBM Elite-partner deal (same day) lands under a new revenue chief is open.
- No valuation or IPO timetable attached to the hire.