OpenAI has appointed Slack CEO Denise Dresser as chief revenue officer, the company announced. She will oversee its global revenue strategy across enterprise and customer success.
OpenAI said it had more than 1 million paying business customers, including organizations using ChatGPT for Work and those accessing its models through its developer platform. The company also reported more than 800 million weekly ChatGPT users.
Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s CEO of Applications, said Dresser’s experience would support the company’s effort to bring AI tools to workers across industries and make them useful, reliable and accessible for businesses.
Dresser became Slack CEO in 2023 after spending more than a decade at Salesforce building and leading global sales organizations. OpenAI said she led Slack through its integration with Salesforce.
During her tenure, Slack announced AI-generated notes for its huddles meetings and integration with Salesforce’s Agentforce AI agents. Slack described the meeting notes feature as capturing summaries, key takeaways and action items from conversations.
Salesforce agreed to acquire Slack at an enterprise value of approximately $27.7 billion. The acquisition closed on July 21, 2021.
