- OpenAI is hiring Sarah Friar and Kevin Weil to hitch its C-suite.
- Friar most just lately served as CEO of Nextdoor and shall be CFO.
- Weil joins from Planet Labs and shall be chief product officer.
Sam Altman could have some top-tier expertise becoming a member of him within the OpenAI C-suite.
The corporate introduced Monday that Sarah Friar and Kevin Weil would be the firm’s new CFO and chief product officer, respectively.
“Sarah and Kevin convey a depth of expertise that can allow OpenAI to scale our operations, set a method for the following section of development, and be sure that our groups have the assets they should proceed to thrive,” Altman stated within the announcement.
In a publish on X, Weil known as OpenAI’s mission “maybe an important and transformative of all of them.”
I’m tremendous excited to announce that I’m becoming a member of @OpenAI as Chief Product Officer!
My complete profession has been about engaged on massive missions: connecting folks and concepts at @Instagram and @Twitter, digitizing monetary companies at Libra/Novi, or most just lately at @Planet, utilizing house…
— Kevin Weil 🇺🇸 (@kevinweil) June 10, 2024
Friar was most just lately CEO of Nextdoor and beforehand served as CFO at Sq.. She has additionally labored at Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, and Salesforce.
Weil was head of product and enterprise for Planet Labs, in addition to the cofounder of the Libra cryptocurrency, VP of Product for Novi at Fb, VP of Product at Instagram, and SVP of Product at Twitter.
