Leila Woodington, Head of B2B Marketing, EMEA, OpenAI

Leila Woodington is Head of B2B Marketing, EMEA at OpenAI, where she leads all business-to-business marketing across the region, spanning enterprises, digital natives, scale-ups, and startups. She works closely with business and technology leaders to help organisations translate advances in AI into durable, real-world value.

With over 20 years of experience in the tech industry, Leila has held senior marketing leadership roles at some of the world’s biggest platforms. Prior to OpenAI, she was Chief Marketing Officer at VEED.IO, a fast-growing AI video creation platform backed by Sequoia. Before that, she served as Director of Business Marketing EMEA at Snap Inc.

Earlier in her career, Leila spent more than a decade at Meta in a range of regional marketing leadership roles, including Marketing Director for Northern Europe. She began her marketing career at PayPal.

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