OpenAI Appoints Barret Zoph to Lead Enterprise Push, Expands ServiceNow Partnership

Summary

OpenAI made two significant enterprise-focused moves on January 22, 2026: appointing Barret Zoph to lead its enterprise sales and product efforts, and announcing an expanded multi-year partnership with ServiceNow. The appointment, reported first by The Information citing an internal memo, came just one week after Zoph rejoined OpenAI from Thinking Machine Labs, the AI startup co-founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati where Zoph had served as co-founder and CTO since October 2024. Prior to that