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OpenAI executive shuffle includes new role for COO Brad Lightcap to lead 'special projects'
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A handful of OpenAI executives are transitioning into new roles, according to a report from Bloomberg.
Key facts
- Update, 4/3/26, 6:25 PM ET with additional context around Dresser’s role
- CEO of AGI development Fidji Simo announced in a memo that Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s COO, has a new job leading “special projects,” which will involve “complex deals and investments across the company
- NEW: OpenAI’s Fidji Simo announced exec changes to staff today: she is taking medical leave for several weeks, COO Brad Lightcap is transitioning to a new role, and CMO Kate Rouch is stepping down
- Denise Dresser, the former Slack CEO who recently joined OpenAI as chief revenue officer, will take over some of Lightcap’s commercial duties
Summary
CEO of AGI development Fidji Simo announced in a memo that Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s COO, has a new job leading “special projects,” which will involve “complex deals and investments across the company.” He will report directly to CEO Sam Altman. Denise Dresser, the former Slack CEO who recently joined OpenAI as chief revenue officer, will take over some of Lightcap’s commercial duties. Simo also had news of her own to share: She will be taking medical leave for the next several weeks to navigate a neuroimmune condition. “I have done everything possible to avoid it, but sadly my body isn’t cooperating,” Simo wrote in the memo obtained by Bloomberg.