OpenAI has hired veteran Salesforce AgentExchange CEO Brian Landsman as its vice president of global partnerships.
Landsman announced his departure from Salesforce after more than 14 years in a post on X.
"After 14+ years at Salesforce, I'm joining OpenAI as VP of Global Partnerships," he wrote.
Landsman held many roles throughout his 14-year tenure at Salesforce. He started in the business development division, eventually moving over to the company's product partnerships division. He held several other roles before becoming CEO of Salesforce's AgentExchange business, where he oversaw the company's global partner ecosystem.
Prior to Salesforce, Landsman held a short stint as an associate at REvel Partners, an early-expansion stage investment group focused on digital media, and internet technology. He began his career in investment banking, working as an analyst at Gleacher Partners, according to his LinkedIn.
The ChatGPT marker plans to nearly double its workforce to 8,000 from 4,5000 by the end of the year, the Financial Times reported. The company plans to add headcount across product development, engineering, research and sales.
Last month, it was announced that one of OpenAI's top safety experts Aleksander Madry departed the company.
Madry joined OpenAI in 2024 as one of the company's top safety executives. He served as head of preparedness. A bio of Madry on a Princeton University AI initiative website described the team as protecting against "catastrophic risks related to frontier AI models." He was later reassigned to a job focused on AI reasoning, CNBC reported at the time.
Meanwhile, one of OpenAI's founding members, Andrej Karpathy, joined Anthropic. Karpathy left OpenAI in February 2024 to launch education startup Eureka Labs.
OpenAI is also stepping up recruitment for "technical ambassadorship" roles aimed at helping businesses get more value from its tools, the report added.
Despite winning its $180 billion lawsuit against Elon Musk, OpenAI missed user growth targets earlier this year, and its CFO has openly worried about paying for compute.