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Graham Seamans, who led xAI's sales team since August 2025, joins OpenAI's cyber team as the ChatGPT maker expands enterprise sales and explores new revenue streams ahead of a potential public listing

Since September, OpenAI has also hired Brian McCarthy and Ismail Elmas in Europe, both of whom had worked for coding automation startup Cursor, which was acquired by SpaceX | Image Credit: Bloomberg

Bloomberg 2 min read Last Updated : Oct 17 2026 | 9:13 AM IST

OpenAI has hired SpaceX’s Graham Seamans to lead sales for the firm’s cybersecurity business, the latest in a string of hires from Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence venture.

Seamans, who had led xAI’s sales team since August 2025 and was part of the firm’s renewed push to sell the Grok chatbot to Wall Street, said he’s joining the developer behind ChatGPT to work on the cyber team. Seamans is the latest sales executive who OpenAI has hired from SpaceX’s AI units. Before joining xAI last year, Seamans had worked at MongoDB Inc. for about eight years, according to his LinkedIn.

Since September, OpenAI has also hired Brian McCarthy and Ismail Elmas in Europe, both of whom had worked for coding automation startup Cursor, which was acquired by SpaceX for $60 billion in August. OpenAI has also hired other staffers from SpaceX’s AI compute team, including Uday Ruddarraju and Brent Mayo.

OpenAI is trying to expand its commercial reach by boosting sales from enterprise customers and creating new revenue sources such as advertising ahead of a potential public listing.


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