Anthropic Hires Google Cloud, Unily Vet In Global Push With ‘Extraordinary’ Demand For Claude

Anthropic hires former Google Cloud EMEA president Chris Ciauri as the AI superstar startup expands globally to grow its $5 billion annual revenue run rate and customer base of more than 300,000.

Anthropic is making a massive push to expand globally with the recent hire of its first Chief Commercial Officer, Paul Smith, and now its new managing director of international Chris Ciauri.

Ciauri (pictured) was previously Google Cloud’s president of EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, Africa) for several years before becoming CEO of AI-powered software platform provider Unily in 2023.

“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,” said Ciauri in a LinkedIn post this week, which has garnered over 300 comments.

Anthropic said its annual revenue run rate has grown from $87 million at the start of 2024 to over $5 billion in August 2025.

Ciauri is Anthropic’s new managing director of International, tasked with expanding the company’s worldwide presence. Anthropic Claude is one of the most popular generative AI assistants on the market.

The startup’s EMEA expansion plan includes hiring over 100 new roles outside the United States in regional offices like Dublin, London and Zurich.

Anthropic said it will open new European-based offices in the coming months, on top of opening its first Asia office in Tokyo.

Anthropic New Director: ‘Global Demand For Claude Is Extraordinary’

Ciauri said he will work with new COO Smith and Anthropic’s international team as the AI superstar expands across new geographies.

"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.”

He brings over 25 years of experience scaling enterprise technology businesses globally to Anthropic.

Prior to being President of EMEA for Google Cloud and CEO of Unily, Ciauri was general manager of EMEA at Salesforce where he helped scale the company’s EMEA business from around $200 million to over $3 billion in revenue during his 10-year tenure.

Anthropic’s Global Push

Anthropic said the hiring of Ciauri and Smith, as well as plans to hire more people internationally, comes as the startup is investing in boosting its global presence thanks to enterprise customer momentum for Claude and new international offices.

Anthropic’s global customer base has grown from under 1,000 business customers in 2023 to over 300,000 today.

Just this week the startup launched Calude Sonnet 4.5, dubbing it the best coding model in the world and the strongest model in the market for building complex AI agents.

The company said nearly 80 percent of consumer Claude usage comes from outside the United States, with usage in South Korea, Australia, and Singapore outpacing America’s use.

“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.