OpenAI Appoints BlackRock Executive Adebayo Ogunlesi to Board Amid For-Profit Transition

Jan 14, 2025, 05:03 PM

OpenAI has appointed Adebayo Ogunlesi, a senior managing director at BlackRock and founding partner of Global Infrastructure Partners, to its board of directors. This move is part of OpenAI's ongoing transformation toward a for-profit structure. Ogunlesi's expertise in infrastructure and global strategy is expected to aid OpenAI in its path to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI).