OpenAI has hired former Slack CEO Denise Dresser as its chief revenue officer, adding enterprise leadership experience as the company pushes to accelerate commercial growth. Dresser spent more than 14 years at Salesforce and Slack, where she guided major AI feature deployments and global sales operations. She will now oversee OpenAI’s revenue strategy and customer success as the company advances from rapid adoption into enterprise-scale monetization.
OpenAI says usage of its AI platforms is expanding across corporate environments, with workers reporting productivity gains and faster execution of complex tasks. The company has signed more than one million business customers, including Walmart, Morgan Stanley, and Intuit, as organizations integrate generative AI into customer support, internal processes, and software development workflows.
Fidji Simo, CEO of Applications at OpenAI, said Dresser’s background in scaling workplace platforms will help bring reliable AI tools to millions of employees. The move follows a broader push among major AI companies to deepen workplace integration. Anthropic recently brought Claude Code to Slack, enabling developers to initiate coding sessions directly from chat threads, underscoring the competitive race to embed AI inside core productivity platforms.
