Greg Brockman’s OpenAI role has grown into the company’s day-to-day operating center as senior leaders leave and reporting lines are redrawn. Brockman, OpenAI’s cofounder and president, oversees consumer and enterprise product work, including ChatGPT and Codex, as well as the company’s infrastructure buildout, according to reporting by The Verge.
Sam Altman remains OpenAI’s chief executive and most visible public representative. The new division of labor described by The Verge has Altman concentrating on the company’s broader direction and IPO-related work, while Brockman takes on more of the machinery that decides what gets built and how the company runs it.
The change is more than an org-chart cleanup. Product teams determine how OpenAI turns its models into services people and businesses can buy. Infrastructure teams handle the computing systems needed to train and operate those services. Putting both under one executive concentrates authority over the company’s software products and the expensive systems behind them.
What teams now report to Greg Brockman at OpenAI?
The Verge reported that Brockman oversees OpenAI’s consumer and enterprise product organizations, ChatGPT, Codex and major infrastructure work. TechCrunch separately reported that the company’s infrastructure and product teams report to Brockman. Thibault Sottiaux, who leads OpenAI’s API and app offerings, told TechCrunch that “everyone reports to Greg at the end of the day.”
That does not make Brockman the CEO. It does mean the president has accumulated operational control while Altman retains the top title, an arrangement that leaves the public face and the internal operator in different seats.
Why have OpenAI executives been leaving?
No single explanation is established for the departures. TechCrunch reported on August 26 that more than a dozen OpenAI executives had left since the start of 2026. The exits included Altman’s top deputy, the chief operating officer, a chief revenue officer, the chief marketing officer, several team leaders and Chris Malone, the head of data centers.
According to TechCrunch, some exits were tied to health issues. Others came amid a reorganization that it reported was intended to cut costly side projects and place greater emphasis on revenue-producing work. OpenAI told TechCrunch that Malone’s departure followed an infrastructure-team reorganization, but declined to comment on the broader management changes.
TechCrunch said the reorganized infrastructure group is led by vice president Sachin Katti. Malone had previously reported directly to Brockman, according to the outlet. The Verge’s reporting characterizes the wider sequence of changes as a consolidation of authority around Brockman, rather than evidence that every departure had the same cause.
The timing raises the stakes. OpenAI is preparing for an IPO, according to both outlets’ reporting, while facing enterprise competition from Anthropic. Brockman’s enlarged remit puts one executive over the products customers use and the infrastructure that makes those products possible. Whether that structure holds is unresolved; the reporting establishes the present reporting lines, not a final settlement of OpenAI’s leadership politics.
This story draws on original reporting from The Verge AI.
