# OpenAI Names Wiz’s Dali Rajic CRO — Repeatable Enterprise Motion, Eight-Month Handoff

Times of AI Desk · 2026-08-13 · Frontier Labs

[https://timesof.ai/2026/08/openai-dali-rajic-chief-revenue-officer](https://timesof.ai/2026/08/openai-dali-rajic-chief-revenue-officer)

> 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** |

OpenAI announced Dresser’s appointment on **December 9, 2025**, roughly eight months before the Rajic announcement. The OpenAI post itself does not attach a dollar valuation or IPO timetable to the hire.

## Limits

- Whether Dresser’s eight-month tenure becomes part of a “talent exodus / IPO red flag” narrative is secondary framing, not a company claim.
- No valuation or IPO timetable attached to the hire.

## Sources

- [OpenAI: Dali Rajic appointment (August 13, 2026)](https://openai.com/index/dali-rajic-chief-revenue-officer/)
- [OpenAI: Denise Dresser appointment (December 9, 2025)](https://openai.com/index/openai-appoints-denise-dresser/)