OpenAI appoints Brice Challamel to lead AI strategy and enterprise adoption
OpenAI has appointed Brice Challamel as Head of AI Strategy and Adoption, a role centered on helping large organizations move from early AI experimentation to scalable, responsible deployment.
The appointment surfaced on LinkedIn, where Challamel set out why he joined OpenAI and how his career across technology, life sciences, and education shaped the decision. He is based in San Francisco and will focus on enterprise-facing strategy as OpenAI expands its work with global organizations.
In the post, Challamel reflected on a decade-long professional journey that began with a move from Paris to the Bay Area to join Google, followed by a relocation to Cambridge to support Moderna during the Covid pandemic.
Challamel wrote, “Ten years ago, Ghislaine and I left Paris for the Bay Area where I joined Google. Five years later, we moved to Cambridge, and I had the privilege to support Moderna’s fight against Covid.” He went on to describe three moments that influenced his decision to join OpenAI, spanning personal, professional, and academic experiences, “A car ride during which ChatGPT invited my daughter to Bach's music, and opened a bridge between her world and mine.”
Enterprise adoption positioned as core challenge
Challamel described his role at OpenAI as focused on making advanced AI research usable in real organizational settings, rather than limiting it to experimentation. He stated, “My focus at OpenAI will be translating frontier research into tangible strategies for global enterprises, so early adoption is useful, ethical, and transformative.”
The remit includes defining enterprise AI adoption frameworks, working with executive teams to identify where AI creates value across workflows, people, models, and code, and designing transformation programs that can scale responsibly. Establishing principles for safe and sustainable adoption also sits within the role.
Experience grounded in large-scale deployment
Before joining OpenAI, Challamel served as Vice President of AI Products and Innovation at Moderna, where he led efforts to embed AI into everyday workflows across the organization. His work focused on moving AI beyond isolated use cases and into finance, HR, and research operations.
Earlier, at Google Cloud, he led global transformation programs, supporting hundreds of organizations as they adopted cloud and AI technologies at scale.
He also pointed to time spent with students as influential in shaping his thinking about AI’s future impact, “A day at Harvard, with MBA students whose experience and vision are already shaping a new business paradigm with AI.”
In the post, Challamel emphasized that the move was driven by conviction rather than career progression, “This new chapter isn’t about comfort or career. It’s about believing in human potential, and our commitment to ensuring that this new era empowers more people, not fewer.” He closed the post on a personal note, “Once again, it's about love.”
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