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title: "Chris Ciauri named Managing Director of International"
description: "Anthropic announces Chris Ciauri as Managing Director of International amid expanded global operations, new offices, and increasing enterprise demand for Claude. Ciauri brings more than 25 years of experience scaling enterprise technology businesses globally, including roles as CEO of Unily, president of EMEA at Google Cloud, and EVP and GM of EMEA at Salesforce, where he helped grow revenue from under $200 million to over $3 billion. He joins Paul Smith’s international leadership group with Guillaume Princen, Hidetoshi Tojo, and Kate Jensen, while Anthropic adds more than 100 EMEA roles, opens its first Asia office in Tokyo, and plans further European locations. Anthropic says this momentum reflects technical talent, safety, and frontier research, including alignment and interpretability work. The company reports run-rate revenue above $5 billion in August 2025, more than 300,000 business customers, and customer examples spanning productivity, documentation, service quality, fraud reduction, and software development."
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# Chris Ciauri named Managing Director of International

[Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic) · Sep 10, 2026

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

Anthropic announces Chris Ciauri as Managing Director of International amid expanded global operations, new offices, and increasing enterprise demand for Claude. Ciauri brings more than 25 years of experience scaling enterprise technology businesses globally, including roles as CEO of Unily, president of EMEA at Google Cloud, and EVP and GM of EMEA at Salesforce, where he helped grow revenue from under $200 million to over $3 billion. He joins Paul Smith’s international leadership group with Guillaume Princen, Hidetoshi Tojo, and Kate Jensen, while Anthropic adds more than 100 EMEA roles, opens its first Asia office in Tokyo, and plans further European locations. Anthropic says this momentum reflects technical talent, safety, and frontier research, including alignment and interpretability work. The company reports run-rate revenue above $5 billion in August 2025, more than 300,000 business customers, and customer examples spanning productivity, documentation, service quality, fraud reduction, and software development.

## Context

Anthropic says its international expansion responds to increasing global demand for Claude and enterprise interest in AI systems combining frontier performance with the safety and reliability required for critical business operations.

## Approach / What changed

Anthropic appointed Chris Ciauri as Managing Director of International and placed him in Paul Smith's international leadership group. The company is expanding offices and staffing across Europe and Japan while developing its global go-to-market strategy and enterprise sales organization.

## Takeaways

- Nearly 80 percent of consumer Claude usage comes from outside the United States, with per-capita usage in South Korea, Australia, and Singapore exceeding that of America’s.
- Anthropic says its business customer base grew from under 1,000 two years ago to over 300,000, representing more than 300x growth.
- Reported customer results include a 99.9% reduction in clinical documentation time at Novo Nordisk and a 79% reduction in feature development time at Rakuten using Claude Code.

**Tags:** [AI](https://yomu.fyi/topic/ai), [Generative AI](https://yomu.fyi/topic/generative-ai)

- Source: [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-expands-global-leadership-in-enterprise-ai-naming-chris-ciauri-as-managing-director-of)
- Source URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-expands-global-leadership-in-enterprise-ai-naming-chris-ciauri-as-managing-director-of
- Ingested by Yomu: 2026-09-10T20:02:41.750Z

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