Anthropic is moving quickly on its global expansion plans, bringing in seasoned tech executive Chris Ciauri as Managing Director of International. The hire comes just weeks after the company appointed Paul Smith as chief commercial officer, a clear sign that Anthropic is doubling down on scaling its enterprise presence worldwide.
Ciauri previously served as president of EMEA at Google Cloud and later as CEO of Unily. He also spent a decade at Salesforce, where he grew the company’s EMEA business from $200 million to more than $3 billion in revenue. With the need for scaling enterprise technology today, he’s stepping into Anthropic at a pivotal moment.
“What a moment to be joining [Anthropic]—the company is the No. 1 enterprise AI platform, growing from $1 billion to $5 billion in revenue just this year, and serving over 300,000 customers globally with enterprise accounts growing 7X,” Ciauri said in a LinkedIn post this week.
Global demand for Claude surges
No wonder the man’s excited, the numbers speak for themselves. Anthropic’s revenue run rate jumped from $87 million at the start of 2024 to over $5 billion by August 2025. Additionally, the company’s enterprise customer base has grown from under 1,000 in 2023 to over 300,000 today.
What’s driving a significant portion of that growth is demand outside the U.S. Almost 80 percent of Claude’s consumers now use its products, with particularly strong uptake in South Korea, Australia, and Singapore.
“The global demand for Claude is extraordinary—from financial services in London to manufacturing in Tokyo, enterprises are trusting Claude to power their mission-critical operations,” said Ciauri. “This is a key moment for Anthropic to expand the infrastructure and partnerships needed to serve this growing international customer base.”
Expanding teams and offices
Anthropic isn’t slowing down anytime soon. The company plans to bring on a significant number of new employees, tripling its international headcount and expanding its applied AI team by five times before the year ends. That means more than 100 new roles across Europe, in locations such as Dublin, London, and Zurich, plus a new Tokyo office to anchor its growing presence in Asia.
On the product side, Anthropic just rolled out Claude Sonnet 4.5, which it’s calling the strongest coding model available for building complex AI agents. And with Claude now set to be integrated into Microsoft Copilot, the company is making it clear that its growth strategy isn’t just about signing up more direct enterprise users; it’s also about embedding Claude into the everyday tools companies already rely on.
“The global demand for enterprise AI is accelerating, and I can’t wait to help more organizations worldwide discover what Claude can do,” said Ciauri.
Anthropic’s global push comes on the heels of major backing from the tech giants. Earlier this year, Amazon finalized its $4 billion investment in the company, cementing its bet on Claude as a key player in the AI race.