{"slug": "openai-poaches-wiz-president-from-google-in-enterprise-ai-push", "title": "OpenAI poaches Wiz president from Google in enterprise AI push", "summary": "OpenAI appointed Dali Rajic, former president and COO of Wiz, as its new chief revenue officer, replacing Denise Dresser after nine months. Rajic, who also held leadership roles at Cisco and AppDynamics, will lead OpenAI's go-to-market team as the company pushes into enterprise AI solutions. OpenAI President Greg Brockman said Rajic would help turn lessons into repeatable execution for making AI broadly useful.", "body_md": "OpenAI appointed Wiz and Cisco veteran Dali Rajic as its new chief revenue officer (CRO).\n\nRajic joins the AI giant after serving over two years as president and COO of Wiz, the cloud security firm Google Cloud gobbled up this year [for a cool $32 billion.](https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/google-cloud-closes-wiz-acquisition-begins-platform-player-brawl/)\n\nOpenAI’s CRO joins as the frontier model maker aims to enter the channel and become the enterprise supplier of choice for compute-heavy agentic AI solutions. OpenAI positioned Rajic as helming “a world-class go-to-market team,” with President and Co-Founder Greg Brockman hoping he would “turn what we’ve learned into repeatable execution as we build out the full system to make AI broadly useful for people and businesses.”\n\nRajic’s prior experience at Wiz includes chief operating officer (COO) for Zscaler. He joined the cybersecurity firm in 2019 as its CRO and president for go-to-market, before becoming COO for a two-year stint starting in 2022.\n\nThe biggest patch on his CV was his seven years-plus at AppDynamics, overlapping with Cisco’s acquisition [of the observability platform in 2017.](https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/cisco-interrupts-appdynamics-ipo-with-a-37b-offer/) Beginning there in 2012 as VP of sales for the North America West side of the business, Rajic would eventually lead all Americas sales in 2016 before becoming CRO in the same year. After the Cisco buyout, Rajic became chief customer and revenue officer.\n\nOther roles Rajic served included positions at BMC Software, Verint, EMC Computer Systems, Teletrac, and Standard Register.\n\nCommenting on his new role, Rajic said: “OpenAI has extraordinary technology, products that more than one billion people already love, and enormous market pull. I’m excited to join the team, build on the momentum already in place, and lead the revenue organization as we help customers realize the full value of AI.”\n\nHe replaces Denise Dresser in the role, who leaves OpenAI after only nine months in the CRO position.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-poaches-wiz-president-from-google-in-enterprise-ai-push", "canonical_source": "https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/openai-poaches-wiz-president-from-google-in-enterprise-ai-push/", "published_at": "2026-08-14 12:11:14+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-14 12:39:24.273304+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "Dali Rajic", "Wiz", "Google Cloud", "Greg Brockman", "Cisco", "AppDynamics", "Denise Dresser"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-poaches-wiz-president-from-google-in-enterprise-ai-push", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-poaches-wiz-president-from-google-in-enterprise-ai-push.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-poaches-wiz-president-from-google-in-enterprise-ai-push.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-poaches-wiz-president-from-google-in-enterprise-ai-push.jsonld"}}