Altman returned as OpenAI CEO four days after being fired.
Sam Altman has rejoined the board of ChatGPT maker OpenAI along with three new directors, as the startup tries to move on from his sudden ouster in November, which shocked the tech industry.
Altman returned as OpenAI CEO four days after being fired and leads a new team that includes Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor. Board of Directors.
The board will expand with the additions of former Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation CEO Sue Desmond-Hellmann, former Sony Entertainment President Nicole Seligman and Instacart CEO Fidji Simo.
Here are more details about the new members:
Fergie Simo
Simo serves as CEO and Chairman of Instacart. She also serves on Shopify’s board of directors.
She spent ten years at social media giant Meta Platforms, including serving as head of Facebook from 2019 to 2021.
She also serves as president of the Metrodora Foundation. Simo is co-founder of the Metrodora Institute, a multidisciplinary medical clinic and research foundation she co-founded.
Sue Desmond-Herman
Desmond-Hellman is a former board member of Meta and served as CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation from 2014-20. She is also a former director on the board of directors of Procter & Gamble and currently serves on the board of directors of US drugmaker Pfizer and the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
From 2009 to 2014, she served as professor and president of the University of California, San Francisco, the first woman to hold this position. She also served as president of product development at biotech company Genentech.
Nicole Seligman
The attorney serves on the boards of Paramount Global, MeiraGTx and Intuitive Machines. She also served on the board of Viacom in 2019 when it merged with CBS to form Paramount, then renamed ViacomCBS .
She has held various leadership positions at Sony Corporation Japan, including president of Sony Entertainment and president of Sony’s U.S. operations from 2014-16.
She was a litigation partner at Williams & Connolly LLP in the United States. She also served as a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court.
