Fidji Simo is CEO, Applications at OpenAI, where she leads the company’s applications, including ChatGPT, and oversees operations across product development, engineering, sales, finance, marketing, legal, and people teams. A seasoned consumer technology leader, she has spent more than 15 years driving product, strategy and operations at some of the world’s most influential companies.

Before joining OpenAI, Simo served as CEO and Chair of Instacart, guiding the company through its successful public offering. Prior to Instacart, she spent a decade at Meta, where she built Facebook’s advertising business and later led the Facebook app.

Simo also serves on the Board of Directors at Shopify and is Co-Founder of Chronicle Bio, a tech-bio company on a mission to cure complex chronic conditions. Originally from the south of France, she holds a Master of Management from HEC Paris and completed her final year at UCLA Anderson School of Business.