Leadersby GlyphOpenAI
AI labs · 25 leaders now · 6 founders · 18 before · 78 moves, 36 in, 41 out · last Aug 2026
Leadership now
Founders
| Person | Title | Since |
|---|---|---|
| Elon MuskCo-founder | Co-founder | 2015 |
| Trevor BlackwellCo-founder | Co-founder | 2015 |
| Wojciech ZarembaCo-founder | Co-founder | 2015 |
| Diederik P. KingmaCo-founder | Co-founder | 2015 |
| Vicki CheungCo-founder | Co-founder | 2015 |
| Pamela VagataCo-founder | Co-founder | 2015 |
Before
Leadership moves
Sandhya Devanathan joins 
OpenAIHead of Southeast Asia and Australia, from Meta · TechCrunchBarret Zoph leaves 
GoogleHead of AI Enterprise Sales, from OpenAI · TechCrunchChris Malone leaves OpenAIHead of Data Centers · TechCrunchDenise Dresser leaves OpenAIChief Revenue Officer · TechCrunchDali Rajic joins OpenAIChief Revenue Officer, from Wiz · TechCrunchBrad Lightcap leaves OpenAILead, special projects · TechCrunchLilian Weng joins OpenAILead, internal research acceleration team, from Thinking Machines Lab · TechCrunchRyan Beiermeister leaves 
Founders FundVP of Product Policy, from OpenAI · TechCrunch
Fidji Simo leaves OpenAITechCrunchPaul Meade joins OpenAIHardware team, from Apple · TechCrunchPrabhjeet Singh joins OpenAIManaging Director, India, from Uber · TechCrunchNoam Shazeer joins OpenAIGemini co-lead, from DeepMind · TechCrunchDean Ball joins OpenAILeader, Strategic Futures, from Foundation for American Innovation · TechCrunch
Greg Brockman promoted at OpenAIHead of Product Strategy · TechCrunchKevin Weil leaves OpenAIHead of OpenAI for Science · TechCrunchBill Peebles leaves OpenAISora lead · TechCrunchKate Rouch leaves OpenAICMO · TechCrunchBrad Lightcap promoted at OpenAILead, special projects · TechCrunchCaitlin Kalinowski leaves OpenAIHead of Hardware · TechCrunch
Peter Steinberger joins OpenAICreator, from OpenClaw · TechCrunchRyan Beiermeister leaves OpenAIVice President of Product Policy · TechCrunchSam Schoenholz joins OpenAIfrom Thinking Machines Lab · TechCrunchLuke Metz joins OpenAICo-founder, from Thinking Machines Lab · TechCrunchBarret Zoph joins OpenAICo-founder and CTO, from Thinking Machines Lab · TechCrunchBarret Zoph leaves 
Thinking Machines LabCo-founder and CTO · TechCrunchDenise Dresser joins OpenAIChief Revenue Officer, from Slack · TechCrunchSachin Katti joins OpenAILeads compute infrastructure for AGI, from Intel · CRNLiam Fedus leaves 
Periodic LabsVP of Research, from OpenAI · TechCrunchVijaye Raji joins OpenAICTO of Applications, from Statsig · TechCrunchKevin Weil promoted at OpenAIVP, OpenAI for Science · TechCrunchJi Lin leaves 
MetaResearcher, from OpenAI · CNBCHuiwen Chang leaves MetaResearcher, from OpenAI · CNBCShuchao Bi leaves MetaResearcher, from OpenAI · TechCrunchShengjia Zhao leaves MetaResearcher, from OpenAI · TechCrunchJiahui Yu leaves MetaResearcher, from OpenAI · TechCrunchHongyu Ren leaves MetaResearcher, from OpenAI · TechCrunchTrapit Bansal leaves MetaResearcher, from OpenAI · TechCrunchGary Briggs joins OpenAIInterim Head of Marketing, from Meta · TechCrunch
Jony Ive joins OpenAILead, creative and design work, from LoveFrom · TechCrunchFidji Simo joins OpenAICEO of Applications, from Instacart · TechCrunchLiam Fedus leaves OpenAIVP of Research, Post-Training · TechCrunch
Mira Murati leaves Thinking Machines LabFormer CTO, from OpenAI · TechCrunchBarret Zoph leaves Thinking Machines LabVP of Research, from OpenAI · TechCrunchAlexis Conneau leaves WaveForms AICEO, from OpenAI · TechCrunchGreg Brockman joins OpenAIPresident · CNBCLilian Weng leaves OpenAIVP of Research and Safety · TechCrunchCaitlin Kalinowski joins OpenAILead, robotics and consumer hardware, from Meta · TechCrunch
Miles Brundage leaves OpenAISenior Adviser, AGI Readiness · TechCrunchScott Schools joins OpenAIChief Compliance Officer, from Uber · TechCrunch
Aaron Chatterji joins OpenAIChief Economist, from U.S. Department of Commerce · TechCrunch
OpenAI across Glyph
| Site | What |
|---|---|
| Acquisitions | 4 acquisitions |
| Paydays | Pay schedule |
| Changefeed | 64 releases, latest 2026-09-22 |
| TechConf | 9 conferences |