Sam Altman is rejoining the board of ChatGPT maker OpenAI along with three new directors as the startup tries to move past its sudden departure in November that shocked the tech industry.
Altman had returned as CEO of OpenAI just four days after his resignation with a new board consisting of Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo, former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor.
The board will now expand with the addition of Sue Desmond-Hellmann, former CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Nicole Seligman, former president of Sony Entertainment, and Instacart CEO Fidji Simo.
Here you will find more information about the new members:
Fiji Simo
Simo is CEO and chairman of Instacart. She is also on the board of Shopify.
She spent a decade at social media giant Meta Platforms, including as head of Facebook from 2019 to 2021.
She is also president of the Metrodora Foundation. Simo is the co-founder of the Metrodora Institute, a multidisciplinary medical clinic and research foundation, of which she is a co-founder.
Sue Desmond-Hellman
Desmond-Hellman, a former Meta board member, served as CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation from 2014 to 2020. She is also a former director of the board of Proctor and Gamble and currently serves on the board of US drugmaker Pfizer and on the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
She served as professor and chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco from 2009 to 2014, the first woman to hold that position. She also served as president of product development at the biotechnology company Genentech.
Nicole Seligman
The lawyer is a board member at Paramount Global, MeiraGTx and Intuitive Machines. She also served on Viacom's board through 2019, when it merged with CBS to form Paramount, then called ViacomCBS.
She has held several leadership positions at the Japanese company Sony, including president of Sony Entertainment from 2014 to 2016 and president of Sony's U.S. operations.
She was a partner in the litigation practice at the American law firm Williams & Connolly LLP. She also served as a law clerk to Judge Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court.