Fidji Simo
French businesswoman
Fidji Simo (born 5 October 1985) is a French-American businesswoman and the CEO of AGI Deployment at OpenAI. Prior to OpenAI, she spent a decade at Facebook where she was one of the top executives as the head of Facebook, and was CEO of Instacart from 2021 to 2025. She co-founded ChronicleBio, a technology-enabled biomedical research company focused on research into neuroimmune disorders, and is president of the nonprofit Complex Disorders Alliance (CODA).2
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Born Oct 5, 1985.1
About
She is on the board of directors at Shopify and was previously on the board of OpenAI prior to her employment there.
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Companies
Early life and education
Simo grew up in Sète, in the south of France. She was the first member of her family to graduate from high school and holds a master of management degree from HEC Paris. She spent the last year of her program at UCLA's Anderson School of Business.
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Career
Occupation: businessperson.9
- 2025 to 2026Vice president, OpenAI8
- 2024 to 2026Executive board8
- Since 2021Chief executive, Instacart7
- Since 2021Board of directors8
- 2011 to 2021Worked at Facebook4 6
- 2006 to 2011Worked at eBay4 5
eBay
Simo worked at eBay from 2007 to 2011 as part of the strategy team. While at eBay, she built out the company’s local commerce and classified-advertising initiatives.
Simo was the Vice President and Head of Facebook. Over the course of her decade at Facebook, she oversaw the development and strategy for Facebook, including News Feed, Stories, Groups, Video, Marketplace, Gaming, News, Dating, Ads and more. She also led the team in charge of architecting Facebook’s advertising business and monetizing mobile. She made video a critical part of the Facebook experience, from rolling out videos that autoplay in News Feed, to building and launching Facebook Live and Facebook Watch. Simo joined Facebook from eBay in 2011.
Instacart
Simo joined Instacart’s board of directors in January 2021 and was appointed as the company’s CEO in July. She started in the new role in August, replacing Apoorva Mehta, who became the executive chairman of the board.
In September 2023, Instacart appointed Simo to succeed Apoorva Mehta as the Board Chair following the company's initial public offering.
Under Simo's leadership, Instacart broke the longest tech IPO drought in the last 20 years, listing under the ticker symbol CART on Nasdaq in September 2023.
Simo announced on May 7, 2025 that she would be leaving the CEO role in several months but would remain as chair of the board through her transition to OpenAI.
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OpenAI
In March 2024, Simo joined OpenAI's board of directors. On May 7, 2025, she announced she would leave Instacart to become OpenAI's first CEO of Applications, a role overseeing product, business, technology, engineering, and other company functions. She began the position in August 2025, reporting to founder and CEO Sam Altman. The role (now titled CEO of AGI Deployment) leads all product and business teams, including all of the company's operations such as product development engineering, sales, finance, marketing, comms and policy, legal, and people teams.
Simo has led the expansion of OpenAI’s consumer products, including the January 2026 launch of ChatGPT Health, a service that connects users’ medical records and wellness apps to provide personalized health insights and support for clinical appointments.
Under Simo's leadership of OpenAI's Applications group, efforts expanded to integrate its ChatGPT app, coding platform Codex and browser into a desktop "superapp" which will simplify the user experience and continue focus on engineering and business customers.
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Personal life
Simo is married to French engineer Remy Miralles, who became a chocolatier in California. They have a daughter.
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Awards
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