Desiree Motamedi

With over 20 years in marketing, Desiree serves as SVP and Chief Marketing Officer at Salesforce, leading the vision for its Next Gen Platform. Previously, she was VP, Global Head of Product Marketing at Shopify, driving product awareness and adoption. At Meta, she shaped the brand and pipeline for Workplace, and at Google, she fostered a thriving developer community. Her career began at Adobe, where she reimagined packaging for Creative Suite and Flash Media Server.

She is a leader of Inbound, GTM, and Outbound marketing efforts, building teams, leading marketing craft, and providing mentorship to early stage startups and budding marketers.

She is an Advisor to the innovative startup Curious Cardinals, offering her invaluable guidance to help the company grow and reach its potential. Additionally, she is open to exploring further advisory roles, where she can share her wealth of knowledge and experience to support other organizations and startups. She lives in California with her husband (and his car collection) and is the proud mom of two very wild young boys.