OpenAI hires SpaceX’s Graham Seamans to lead cybersecurity sales

OpenAI has hired Graham Seamans away from SpaceX to run sales for its cybersecurity business, according to Bloomberg. Seamans comes from the SpaceX-linked xAI, where he led sales operations. He joined xAI in August 2025 and was central to pitching the Grok chatbot to enterprise customers, with Wall Street firms a particular focus. The hire was reported on October 16, 2026. A familiar pattern in the sales org Seamans is not a lone defector. He marks OpenAI’s third significant sales hire from SpaceX-linked companies in roughly a month. Brian McCarthy came over in September 2026. Ismail Elmas followed in early October. Seamans now completes the trio. The new role puts Seamans in charge of selling OpenAI’s cybersecurity offerings. Security is a notoriously hard sell. Buyers are cautious, procurement cycles are long, and nobody wants to be the executive who approved the tool that caused the breach. The resume behind the hire Before his stint at xAI, Seamans spent approximately eight years at MongoDB, the database company. His titles there included Regional Vice President in the US and Area Vice President for Northern Europe. He stayed at MongoDB until July 2025, then moved to xAI the fo...