Teams at OpenAI

Leads infrastructure site development from exclusivity and diligence through closing and handoff to design, construction, and operations. Validates power pathways, coordinates commercial, legal, finance, land, utility, and technical partners, and converts site constraints into phased deployment plans. Manages diligence vendors, schedules, budgets, dependencies, risks, action lists, and executive escalations while delivering advance, defer, or stop recommendations and readiness packages.

Leads economic development strategy for infrastructure sites, including incentive negotiations, stakeholder relationships, community-benefit commitments, and approval-risk assessment. Coordinates with site selection, land, power, legal, finance, and community engagement teams. Supports agreement-linked commitments and transitions local relationships to community engagement leaders as projects advance.

Serve as OpenAI's primary liaison to Ohio communities, building trust-based relationships, designing and executing engagement strategies, representing the company publicly, coordinating with economic and environmental leads, monitoring sentiment, and creating a scalable community engagement playbook.