OpenAI Leadership

Q: Who Is the Founder Of OpenAI?

Greg Brockman, Samuel Altman, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Wojciech Zaremba and John Schulman founded OpenAI.

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Here are further demographic highlights of the leadership team:

The OpenAI executive team is 21% female and 79% male.
76% of the management team is White.
8% of OpenAI management is Hispanic or Latino.
12% of the management team is Black or African American.

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Name & TitleBio

Greg Brockman

Founder

Greg Brockman is the CTO and co-founder of OpenAI. Before OpenAI, Greg was the Founding Engineering and CTO at Stripe.

Samuel Altman

Founder

Samuel H. Altman (born April 22, 1985) is an American entrepreneur, investor, programmer, and blogger. He is the CEO of OpenAI and the former president of Y Combinator.

Elon Musk

Founder

Ilya Sutskever

Founder

Wojciech Zaremba

Founder

John Schulman

Founder

Shivon Zilis

Board Member

Adam D'Angelo

Board Member

Ashley Pilipiszyn

Technical Director, Office of The CTO

Ashley Pilipiszyn is a Board Director at Student Energy; Technical Director, Office of the CTO at OpenAI; and Network Leader at Village Global and is based in Palo Alto, California. She has worked as Clinical Researcher at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Undergraduate Research Assistant at Lacefield Molecular Biology Lab, and Clinical Researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital. Ashley attended Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Harvard Business School.

Brad Lightcap

CFO

Brad Lightcap is the CFO at OpenAI. Before OpenAI, Brad was an Investor at Y Combinator.

Brad graduated from Duke University in 2012 with a Bachelor's Degree in Economics and History. He is based in San Francisco.

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Name & TitleBio

Greg Brockman

Founder

Greg Brockman is the CTO and co-founder of OpenAI. Before OpenAI, Greg was the Founding Engineering and CTO at Stripe.

Samuel Altman

Founder

Samuel H. Altman (born April 22, 1985) is an American entrepreneur, investor, programmer, and blogger. He is the CEO of OpenAI and the former president of Y Combinator.

Elon Musk

Founder

Ilya Sutskever

Founder

Wojciech Zaremba

Founder

John Schulman

Founder

OpenAI Board Members

Name & TitleBio

Greg Brockman

Founder

Greg Brockman is the CTO and co-founder of OpenAI. Before OpenAI, Greg was the Founding Engineering and CTO at Stripe.

Samuel Altman

Founder

Samuel H. Altman (born April 22, 1985) is an American entrepreneur, investor, programmer, and blogger. He is the CEO of OpenAI and the former president of Y Combinator.

Elon Musk

Founder

Shivon Zilis

Board Member

Adam D'Angelo

Board Member

Holden Karnofsky

Board Member

Reid Hoffman

Board Member

Tasha McCauley

Board Member

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