Claim · 2025-09-16 · snapshot · Stated in source · Supported

CFO Dive reported on 16 September 2025 that an OpenAI spokesperson had confirmed Mike Liberatore's appointment as business finance officer for AI infrastructure, effective that day, reporting to CFO Sarah Friar.

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Mike Liberatore → held role at → OpenAI

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Claim and evidence

Mike Liberatoreheld role at ↓OpenAI

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Supporting evidence: secondary · 1 source

Date: 2025-09-16 · snapshot Records dated 2025 →
Role: business finance officer (BFO) for AI infrastructure

Scope and limitsThe record rests on reporting of a spokesperson's confirmation; no OpenAI announcement was retrieved. It does not establish a continuing role.

Rests on reportingNo primary source supports this record; its supporting passages come from reporting.

The evidence 02

secondary sourceSupports the claim

OpenAI nabs former xAI CFO as business finance leader

CFO Dive · 2025-09-16

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Source excerpt

“has appointed the former finance chief of xAI, Mike Liberatore, to the role of business finance officer (BFO) for AI infrastructure, effective Tuesday”

Location in source Dive Brief, paragraph 1

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-29

Source details and check notes

Authors: Grace Noto
Version: Dated page, retrieved on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 47f13bf4746134ededc3bd96e58f96188771fef1579198faf0f35c76c5ac9376) directly from the publisher.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Grace Noto, “OpenAI nabs former xAI CFO as business finance leader”, 2025-09-16.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, lab genealogy 2 (research/lab-genealogy-2). The quotation (23 words) matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-29 and again in a fresh retrieval. Read directly from the publisher. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-31, item L107) re-read the record’s sources. No human editorial review.

secondary sourceSupports the claim

OpenAI nabs former xAI CFO as business finance leader

CFO Dive · 2025-09-16

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Source excerpt

“Liberatore will report to OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar in the new role”

Location in source Dive Brief, paragraph 2

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-29

Source details and check notes

Authors: Grace Noto
Version: Dated page, retrieved on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 47f13bf4746134ededc3bd96e58f96188771fef1579198faf0f35c76c5ac9376) directly from the publisher.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Grace Noto, “OpenAI nabs former xAI CFO as business finance leader”, 2025-09-16.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, lab genealogy 2 (research/lab-genealogy-2). The quotation (12 words) matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-29 and again in a fresh retrieval. Read directly from the publisher. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-31, item L107) re-read the record’s sources. No human editorial review.

Status and meaning

Editorial status. Machine-checked. Machines found this record and checked it against its sources; no person accepted it individually. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.

Relation. An institutional role with explicitly scoped time: snapshot, sourced interval, or unknown dates. No continuing appointment is implied.

Date. Date of the report, which gives the appointment as effective that Tuesday.

Record ID lg2-xa-liberatore-openai-bfo-2025