Anthropic appoints Paul Smith as first Chief Commercial Officer
Anthropic will appoint Paul Smith as its first Chief Commercial Officer, with the role to begin later in 2025. Smith brings over 30 years of enterprise go-to-market experience from Microsoft, Salesforce, and ServiceNow. The announcement coincides with Anthropic citing strong enterprise growth metrics, including hundreds of thousands of active API customers and Claude Code recurring revenue growing over 5x in two months.
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Anthropic Names Chris Ciauri as Managing Director of International, Announces Global Enterprise Expansion
Anthropic announced the appointment of Chris Ciauri as Managing Director of International, alongside expanded global offices in Dublin, London, Zurich, and Tokyo. The company disclosed run-rate revenue growth from $87M at the start of 2024 to over $5B in August 2025, with enterprise customers growing from under 1,000 to over 300,000 in two years. The announcement includes deployment case studies from NBIM, the European Parliament, Novo Nordisk, SK Telecom, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Rakuten, United Airlines, and TELUS, illustrating broad international enterprise adoption of Claude.
Anthropic Forms New Enterprise AI Services Company with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs
Anthropic has announced the formation of a new AI services company co-founded with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs, backed by a consortium including General Atlantic, Apollo Global Management, GIC, and Sequoia Capital. The firm will deploy Claude into core operations of mid-sized enterprises—community banks, manufacturers, regional health systems—using embedded Applied AI engineers from Anthropic alongside the new company's own engineering staff. The venture extends Anthropic's existing Claude Partner Network (which includes Accenture, Deloitte, and PwC) by targeting a market segment that lacks in-house resources for frontier AI deployments. This represents a significant structural move by Anthropic to capture enterprise deployment revenue through a dedicated services vehicle rather than purely through API licensing.
Anthropic appoints Guillaume Princen as Head of EMEA, plans 100+ new European hires
Anthropic has named Guillaume Princen as its Head of EMEA, bringing in a former Stripe European expansion leader and ex-CEO of Mooncard. The company plans to hire over 100 people across sales, engineering, research, and operations, primarily in Dublin and London, building on an existing Zurich research office. The move signals a deliberate push to capture European enterprise and startup demand for Claude.
Chris Liddell Appointed to Anthropic's Board of Directors
Anthropic has appointed Chris Liddell to its Board of Directors, adding a figure with senior leadership experience at Microsoft, General Motors, and the Trump White House. Liddell joins existing board members Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, Yasmin Razavi, Jay Kreps, and Reed Hastings. The appointment is framed around governance expertise for transformative technology, consistent with Anthropic's Public Benefit Corporation structure. Liddell currently also serves on the boards of Commonwealth Fusion Systems and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Rahul Patil Joins Anthropic as Chief Technology Officer
Anthropic has appointed Rahul Patil as its new Chief Technology Officer, where he will oversee engineering across product, compute, infrastructure, inference, data science, and security. Patil previously served as CTO of Stripe and held senior engineering roles at AWS, Microsoft, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The appointment is framed around scaling Claude to serve Anthropic's 300,000+ enterprise customers. Co-founder Sam McCandlish transitions from CTO to Chief Architect, deepening focus on large-scale model training, pretraining, and RL infrastructure.
Mike Krieger joins Anthropic as Chief Product Officer
Anthropic has hired Mike Krieger, co-founder and former CTO of Instagram, as its Chief Product Officer. Krieger will oversee product engineering, product management, and design as Anthropic expands its enterprise applications and Claude's reach. The hire signals Anthropic's intent to scale consumer and enterprise product efforts, bringing in a leader with experience growing platforms to over a billion users.
Krishna Rao joins Anthropic as Chief Financial Officer
Anthropic has appointed Krishna Rao as its Chief Financial Officer, effective May 21, 2024. Rao brings nearly 20 years of finance leadership experience from roles at Fanatics Commerce, Cedar, and Airbnb, where he helped navigate the COVID-19 pandemic and led over $10 billion in capital raises including Airbnb's IPO. The hire signals Anthropic's focus on scaling financial operations to support enterprise growth and international expansion.
Anthropic Opens Paris and Munich Offices, Cites 9x EMEA Revenue Growth
Anthropic is opening new offices in Paris and Munich, expanding its European footprint to seven cities alongside London, Dublin, and Zurich. The company reports EMEA run-rate revenue has grown more than 9x year-over-year, with large enterprise accounts (>$100K ARR) growing more than 10x. Enterprise customers including L'Oréal, BMW, SAP, and Sanofi are named as Claude users. The expansion includes new regional leadership hires and partnerships with local educational and cultural institutions.