OpenAI executive team & leadership
OpenAI's executive team includes 6 tracked leaders as of July 2026, led by Sam Altman (Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder). The org chart, per-leader profiles and full leadership list are below.
Leadership overview
OpenAI has 6 tracked executives leading key functions including company strategy and operations, a key function, financial strategy, revenue and commercial operations (as of July 2026). OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research and deployment company founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco. It builds general-purpose AI systems, and is best known for the GPT family of large language models, the ChatGPT assistant, the DALL-E image models, and the Sora video model, delivered through consumer apps and a developer API. Following a 2025 restructuring, OpenAI's commercial arm operates as OpenAI Group PBC, a public benefit corporation controlled by the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation, with Microsoft as a major shareholder. Backed by SoftBank, Microsoft, Amazon, and NVIDIA, OpenAI reached a reported valuation near 852 billion dollars in 2026, making it one of the most valuable private companies in the world.
Org chart
Employees by management level
EstimatedLeadership team
| Name | Title | Location | Profile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sam Altman | Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder | San Francisco, California | View → |
| Greg Brockman | President | San Francisco, California | View → |
| Sarah Friar | Chief Financial Officer | San Francisco, California | View → |
| Jakub Pachocki | Chief Scientist | San Francisco, California | View → |
| Jason Kwon | Chief Strategy Officer | San Francisco, California | View → |
| Denise Dresser | Chief Revenue Officer | San Francisco, California | View → |
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Leadership roles at OpenAI
Sam Altman · full profile →
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
Sam Altman is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of OpenAI, which he helped start in 2015 and has led as CEO since 2019. Before OpenAI he was president of the startup accelerator Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019, and earlier co-founded the location-based social app Loopt. He has become one of the most prominent figures of the modern AI era, overseeing the development of ChatGPT and the GPT model family.
Greg Brockman · full profile →
President
Greg Brockman is the President and a co-founder of OpenAI. Before OpenAI, he was the Chief Technology Officer of Stripe, which he joined as one of its earliest employees and helped scale. At OpenAI he has led engineering and infrastructure efforts behind the company's large-scale model training and product systems.
Sarah Friar · full profile →
Chief Financial Officer
Sarah Friar is the Chief Financial Officer of OpenAI, a role she began in 2024. She was previously CEO of the neighborhood social network Nextdoor and, before that, CFO of Square. Earlier in her career she was a managing director in equity research at Goldman Sachs and held finance and strategy roles at Salesforce. She holds an engineering degree from the University of Oxford and an MBA from Stanford.
Jakub Pachocki · full profile →
Chief Scientist
Jakub Pachocki is the Chief Scientist of OpenAI, a role he took on in 2024, succeeding co-founder Ilya Sutskever. A machine learning researcher, he has led key research efforts at OpenAI including work on large-scale model training and reasoning, and now oversees the company's overall research direction.
Jason Kwon · full profile →
Chief Strategy Officer
Jason Kwon is the Chief Strategy Officer of OpenAI, where he oversees strategy and corporate functions and previously served as the company's general counsel. In 2026 he took on part of the responsibilities of the Applications division following the step-back of Fidji Simo.
Denise Dresser · full profile →
Chief Revenue Officer
Denise Dresser is the Chief Revenue Officer of OpenAI, leading the company's go-to-market and revenue organization. She assumed most of the operating responsibilities previously held by Chief Operating Officer Brad Lightcap after his 2026 move to a special-projects role.