{"id":1001074,"date":"2026-04-04T08:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001074"},"modified":"2026-04-04T09:53:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:23:27","slug":"big-shakeup-at-openai-coo-brad-lightcap-shifts-out-of-role-fidji-simo-to-take-medical-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/04\/big-shakeup-at-openai-coo-brad-lightcap-shifts-out-of-role-fidji-simo-to-take-medical-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Big shakeup at OpenAI: COO Brad Lightcap shifts out of role; Fidji Simo to take medical leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI\u2019s chief operating officer is shifting into a new role and two other top executives are going on leave due to health reasons, marking a major change to its executive bench ahead of a potential Wall Street debut as soon as this year. <\/p>\n<p>Brad Lightcap, OpenAI\u2019s longtime COO, will now lead special projects and report directly to chief executive officer Sam Altman, according to a memo viewed by Bloomberg. One of his main efforts will be overseeing OpenAI\u2019s push to sell software to businesses through a joint venture with private equity firms. Denise Dresser, OpenAI\u2019s recently appointed chief revenue officer, will be taking over some of Lightcap\u2019s duties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI\u2019s chief operating officer is shifting into a new role and two other top executives are going on leave due to health reasons, marking a major change to its executive bench ahead of a potential Wall Street debut as soon as this year. Brad Lightcap, OpenAI\u2019s longtime COO, will now lead special projects and report directly to chief executive officer Sam Altman, according to a memo viewed by Bloomberg. One of his main efforts will be overseeing OpenAI\u2019s push to sell software to businesses through a joint venture with private equity firms. Denise Dresser, OpenAI\u2019s recently appointed chief revenue officer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}