OpenAI hires Cursor’s Europe chief, its second sales hire from SpaceX
OpenAI has hired Ismail Elmas, who ran Cursor’s business in Europe, as its vice president of sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
He is the second sales executive OpenAI has taken from Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which owns Cursor, in the past month.
The German business daily Handelsblatt first reported the news on Thursday morning, October 8. OpenAI confirmed the hire to Handelsblatt, which carried comments from Elmas and his new boss.
Elmas will be based in Munich, according to Handelsblatt, and all of OpenAI’s sales staff across the region will report to him. The firm plans to sharply grow its sales team in Europe, the paper said.
Cursor is the AI coding firm that SpaceX bought for $60bn in a deal that closed on August 14. In June, as Cursor’s senior vice president for EMEA, Elmas told Reutersthe firm would open a London head office and...
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