Claude creator Anthropic is to add two new European offices in Paris and Munich and has appointed Pip White as head of Ireland, UK and northern Europe.
Anthropic says Europe is now its fastest-growing region with large business accounts growing by a factor of ten in the past year, and a tripling of headcount here in the same period. Anthropic established its first EU-based office in Dublin back in 2024, and it remains its EMEA HQ. It already has offices in Zurich and London.
“Europe is home to some of the world’s most important and forward-thinking companies,” said Chris Ciauri, Anthropic’s managing director of International. “The business leaders I speak to are clear-eyed on both the immense opportunity that AI development represents and the critical importance of safety, reliability and public trust.”
He added that Anthropic was strengthening its leadership team and “doubling down on sustained EMEA growth and building the team our European users need”. Existing enterprise clients in Europe include SAP, N26, Lovable, BMW, Sanofi and L’Oreal.
Guillaume Princen heads up EMEA Start-ups, Thomas Remy is the new head of EMEA South and Pip White is the new head of EMEA North, and will be based in Anthropic’s London office. White has a long background in enterprise technology at the likes of Salesforce, Google and Slack.
It fits with Anthropic’s clear strategy to focus efforts on paying enterprise customers. Just last month, Anthropic announced its largest enterprise deal to date – an expanded alliance with Deloitte to make Claude available to Deloitte’s 470,000-strong workforce, and to develop new “industry-specific solutions” powered by Claude.
Founded by Open AI alumni Dario and Daniela Amodei, Anthropic was built on the principles of responsible AI, and has favoured strong regulation. It is a stance that has drawn ire from the US administration who are more accustomed to consensus from the big AI players.
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