Artificial intelligence
10 OpenAI account executives
These ten current OpenAI account executives hold account director and sales roles at the company. A reader can learn what account executive work at OpenAI involves from people who have done it.
Professionals to explore
01—10Chris Nam
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Account Director at OpenAI · OpenAI
Sr. Account Director at OpenAI since May 2026, a director-level Sales role, with the headline Public Sector- Sr. Account Director at OpenAI. Before OpenAI they were a Sr. Account Executive at Anthropic (2025–2026) and at Salesforce (2025), and a Federal Civilian Account Executive at Google Cloud from 2020 to 2025.
Daniel Worlikar
LinkedInExperience: Account Director | Large Enterprise · OpenAI
Account Director | Large Enterprise at OpenAI since May 2026, based in Berlin, a director-level Sales role. Before joining they were a Regional Sales Director for strategic enterprise EMEA at KNIME (2025–2026), at Dataiku a Global Account Executive (2024–2025) and Sr. Enterprise Account Executive (2022–2024), and an Enterprise Account Executive for public sector at Microsoft (2016–2022).
Eli Burch
LinkedInExperience: Enterprise Account Director · OpenAI
Enterprise Account Director at OpenAI since September 2025, a director-level Sales role in San Francisco. Before joining they were a Senior Account Executive at Koala (Acquired by Cursor) (2024–2025), Senior Account Executive, Finance Cloud (2023–2024) and Account Executive, Finance Cloud (2022–2023) at Rippling, and Account Executive, Commercial at Twilio (2021–2022).
Evan Gaumert
LinkedInExperience: GTM - Account Director · OpenAI
GTM - Account Director at OpenAI since July 2024, a director-level Sales role in San Francisco. Before joining they were an Enterprise Account Executive at Adyen (2023–2024), an Enterprise Account Executive (2020–2023) and Senior Account Executive (2019–2020) at Square, and Director of Business Development at Somnio (2017–2019).
Ishaan Makker
LinkedInExperience: Account Director - Large Enterprise and Strategics · OpenAI
Account Director - Large Enterprise and Strategics at OpenAI since December 2025, based in Mumbai, with the headline GTM India @ OpenAI. Before OpenAI they were a Strategic Account Executive at GitLab (2025), and at Zscaler a Strategic Account Manager (2023–2025), Regional Sales Director - Enterprise (2022–2023) and Regional Sales Manager - Enterprise (2020–2022).
Jonny Chan
LinkedInExperience: Account Director · OpenAI
Account Director at OpenAI since January 2025, a director-level role in San Francisco, with the headline GTM @ OpenAI. Before OpenAI they were a Strategic Account Executive at Cohere (2024–2025), a Strategic Account Executive at Gong (2021–2024) and Head of Sales Enablement at People.ai, and they are a GTM Advisor at Streak.
Kofi Ankomah
LinkedInExperience: Enterprise Account Director · OpenAI
Enterprise Account Director at OpenAI since May 2024, based in London, a director-level Sales role. Before OpenAI they were an Enterprise Account Executive (2022–2024) and Account Executive (2020–2022) at Fullstory, an Enterprise Account Executive at Sensor Tower (2019–2020) and Account Executive - Mid-Market at Okta (2018–2019).
Matt Weyls
LinkedInExperience: Account Director · OpenAI
Account Director at OpenAI since December 2025, based in Santa Barbara, with the headline GTM @ OpenAI. Before OpenAI they were an Enterprise Account Executive at Statsig (2025), Semgrep (2023–2025), impact.com (2019–2023) and Pantheon (2018–2019), with the most recent of those roles ending in December 2025.
Melissa Verde
LinkedInExperience: Sales Executive · OpenAI
Sales Executive at OpenAI since August 2024; the role description says the work is driving new business growth by helping organizations identify and adopt AI solutions and building relationships with key decision-makers. Before OpenAI they were a District Sales Manager at IMS (2020–2024) and a Territory Sales Manager at DSI Innovations (2015–2020).
Yashar Arya
LinkedInExperience: GTM - Account Director · OpenAI
GTM - Account Director at OpenAI since February 2026, a director-level Sales role in the San Francisco Bay Area. Before OpenAI they were a Strategic Account Executive at WRITER (from 2024) and at Airtable (2022–2024), worked in sales and business development at Human API and was Head of Presales, Americas at AppDirect.
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's segment and region to your question, since enterprise, strategic, digital native and public sector buyers follow different buying processes. Look at what they sold before OpenAI, because that shapes how they compare selling AI with earlier products.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do enterprise buyers evaluate an AI platform compared with other software purchases?
- 02What objections come up most often when selling ChatGPT or the API to a large company?
- 03How does selling to the public sector differ from selling to commercial enterprises in AI?
Reaching OpenAI account executives
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