Anthropic named Chris Ciauri, a Google Cloud and Salesforce alum, managing director of its international business as the company continues to scale its operations.
The news comes after Anthropic raised $13 billion in venture funding and named Paul Smith chief commercial officer. Anthropic has emerged as the enterprise LLM play and is following the vertical and use case playbook.
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Anthropic said it is looking to open and fill international offices across multiple continents. Anthropic noted that 80% of consumer Claude usage comes from outside the US and that its global base of business customers now tops 300,000, up from 1,000 two years ago.
Ciauri was most recently CEO of Unily, president of EMEA at Google Cloud and GM of EMEA at Salesforce.
Key points about Anthropic's global expansion moves.
- Anthropic's hire of Ciauri rounds out an international team that includes Guillaume Princen as Head of EMEA, Hidetoshi Tojo as Head of Japan, and Kate Jensen as Head of Americas.
- The EMEA expansion includes more than 100 new roles in Dublin and London as well as research hub Zurich.
- In Japan, Anthropic is opening its first Asia office in Tokyo.
- International enterprise customers cited by Anthropic included NBIM, European Parliament, Novo Nordisk, SK Telcom, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Telus and Rakuten.
