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Salesforce leadership consists of some of the brightest minds in the business, guiding the company in its values.

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Marc Benioff, Chair, CEO & Co-Founder

Marc Benioff, Chair, CEO & Co-Founder

Marc Benioff is Chair, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Salesforce and a pioneer of cloud computing. Under Benioff's leadership, Salesforce has become the third-largest enterprise software company and the largest enterprise applications company in the world. Benioff was named “Innovator of the Decade” by Forbes and is recognized as one of the World’s 25 Greatest Leaders by Fortune, one of the 10 Best-Performing CEOs by Harvard Business Review, as the CNN Business CEO of 2020 and Chief Executive Magazine's 2022 CEO of the Year. He was named a “Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur,” one of France's most prestigious awards for an individual, in recognition of Salesforce’s longstanding relationship with France and support to French Polynesia during the pandemic. Benioff received the Yale Legend in Leadership Award in 2024. In 2019, Benioff was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering. For his leadership on equality, Benioff has been honored by GLAAD, the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative and Variety Magazine with its EmPOWerment Award. In 2020, he and his wife, Lynne, received a George H.W. Bush Points of Light Award for their civic engagement. Benioff founded Salesforce in 1999, and it is now a Fortune 150 company with 70,000+ employees, guided by five core values — trust, customer success, innovation, equality and sustainability. The company has been recognized as the Most Innovative Company by Forbes, a Best Place to Work by Fortune, and the 10th Most Admired Company in the World by Fortune. Benioff was named “Innovator of the Decade” by Forbes and is recognized as one of the World’s 25 Greatest Leaders by Fortune, one of the 10 Best-Performing CEOs by Harvard Business Review and as the CNN Business CEO of 2020. For his leadership on equality, Benioff has been honored by GLAAD, the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative and Variety Magazine with its EmPOWerment Award. Building a different kind of company, Benioff created Salesforce to not only develop great products, but also to have a positive impact on the world. On day 1, Benioff created the 1-1-1 model of philanthropy, committing 1% of Salesforce’s equity, product and employee time to the community since the company’s founding 25 years ago. He also co-founded the Pledge 1% movement. Today, more than 20,000 companies have adopted the 1-1-1 model. He is the owner and co-chair of TIME. Benioff and his wife, Lynne, have focused their philanthropy on healthcare, the environment, public education and homelessness. The Benioffs have given more than $250 million to the University of California, San Francisco to build UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals in San Francisco and Oakland. The Benioffs have also established the Benioff Ocean Initiative at the University of California Santa Barbara, the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative, the UCSF Benioff Initiative for Prostate Cancer Research, the UCSF Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine, and provided the initial funding for the Stanford Microbiome Therapies Initiative. A member of the World Economic Forum ("WEF") Board of Trustees, Benioff co-founded 1t.org — the global movement to conserve, restore and grow one trillion trees — and the WEF Friends of Ocean Action. He also serves as the inaugural Chair of WEF's Forum Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in San Francisco. Benioff is the owner and co-chair of TIME, and the founder of TIME Ventures — a leading investment firm with over 200 investments. Benioff is author of the New York Times bestseller Trailblazer: The Power of Business as the Greatest Platform for Change. Before launching Salesforce, Benioff spent 13 years at Oracle Corporation, where he was the youngest vice president in company history. When he was 14 years old, he sold his first piece of software, “How to Juggle,” for $75. He founded his first company, Liberty Software, which created video games, at the age of 15. Benioff received a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Southern California, where he is on its Board of Trustees. In 2014, USC awarded Benioff an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters.
Last Updated: 04/09/2025
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Parker Harris

Parker Harris,Co-Founder, Salesforce & Chief Technology Officer, Slack

Parker Harris is the CTO of Slack and the Co-Founder of Salesforce. He oversees Slack’s world-class engineering team and sets the technical vision for the company. Parker is passionate about the power of cloud computing and its ability to help organizations digitally transform and become more customer- centric. Since co-founding Salesforce in 1999, Parker has had an indelible impact on the company — driving its technology strategy, championing customer success and innovation, and fostering an ecosystem of partners and advocates across the globe. Parker has spearheaded many technology initiatives at Salesforce that deliver productivity, reliability, and exceptional user experiences to companies at scale — notably, Hyperforce, the Salesforce Platform, and Lightning Experience. Before Salesforce, Parker co-founded cloud computing company Left Coast Software and worked at Metropolis Software, a pioneer in field sales force automation. Parker has a B.A. in English literature from Middlebury College. He resides in San Francisco.
Last Updated: 04/09/2025
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Robin Washington, President & Chief Operating and Financial Officer

Robin Washington, President & Chief Operating and Financial Officer

Robin Washington is President and COFO at Salesforce, where she leads Business Strategy and Operations, Global Finance, Employee Success, Global Strategic Customers and Partners, Marketing, Communications, and Real Estate and Workplace Services. She is responsible for driving profitable growth and operational excellence—while accelerating the transformation of every company into an Agentforce company, in the new agentic era. A seasoned executive and visionary leader, Robin has spent decades at the forefront of operational and financial strategy at some of the world’s most respected companies. She has served as a Salesforce Board Director since 2013, including as Lead Independent Director from 2022–2025, playing a critical role in Salesforce’s strategic transformation. Previously, she served as EVP & CFO of Gilead Sciences (2008–2019), CFO of Hyperion Solutions (2006–2007), and Chief Accounting Officer of PeopleSoft. Robin also currently serves on the board of directors of Alphabet. She is a certified public accountant and received her B.A. in business administration from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Pepperdine University.
Last Updated: 04/09/2025
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Ariel Kelman, President & Chief Marketing Officer, Salesforce

Ariel Kelman, President & Chief Marketing Officer, Salesforce

Ariel Kelman is President and CMO at Salesforce, where he oversees worldwide marketing efforts. In this role, Ariel is responsible for building the Salesforce brand and creating customer demand around the globe. Prior to rejoining Salesforce in 2023, Ariel served as the CMO at Oracle and AWS. He previously worked at Salesforce from 2005 to 2011 and held a number of roles, including Vice President of Product Marketing for Platform. Ariel holds a B.A. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Last Updated: 02/28/2024
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David Schmaier, President & Chief Strategy Officer, Salesforce

David Schmaier, President & Chief Strategy Officer, Salesforce

David Schmaier is President and Chief Strategy Officer at Salesforce. He is responsible for spearheading strategic priorities that advance Salesforce’s industry leadership, from M&A and venture capital to market strategy and monetization. David also oversees the company’s stakeholder capitalism and corporate philanthropy efforts as well as the Office of Ethical and Humane Use. David has more than three decades of experience in cloud, CRM, and industry-specific software, helping customers map and realize their visions for AI and data-powered digital transformation at scale. He previously served as Salesforce’s Chief Product Officer, leading the company’s agentic AI efforts, and as the CEO for Salesforce Industries. He joined Salesforce through the company’s acquisition of Vlocity, where he was the Co-Founder and CEO from 2014 to 2020. Before that, David served as a founding executive and Executive Vice President at Siebel Systems. David serves as a strategic advisory board member for Genstar Capital. He is a cabinet board member for the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard and also serves on the Board of Dean's Advisors for Harvard Business School. He holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Last Updated: 06/18/2025
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Kendall Collins, Chief Business Officer & Chief of Staff to Marc Benioff, Salesforce

Kendall Collins, Chief Business Officer & Chief of Staff to Marc Benioff, Salesforce

Kendall Collins is Chief Business Officer and Chief of Staff to Marc Benioff at Salesforce. He’s responsible for leading strategic company initiatives and customer relationships for the Office of the Chair and CEO, along with overseeing the global communications team. Kendall was an executive at Salesforce from 2004 to 2016, where he held roles across sales, product, and marketing, including as EVP and CEO of Salesforce Cloud, EVP and GM for Collaboration, and Global CMO. He and his teams led Salesforce customers through a period of rapid innovation, as the company expanded its portfolio of clouds and developed groundbreaking social, mobile, and AI technologies for CRM. He drove the launch of multiple company milestones, including Salesforce One (Lightning), Salesforce Communities, Service Cloud, AppExchange, and the brand shift to cloud computing. Kendall was previously CMO of Okta, CMO of AppDynamics (Cisco), and GM for Enterprise Software at WeWork. He has also served as Executive in Residence at Accel Partners and was previously appointed to the digital advisory board for Obama for America. He graduated with a B.S. in commerce with distinction from the University of Virginia, a concentration in East Asian studies, and studied at National Taiwan University.
Last Updated: 02/28/2024
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Miguel Milano, President & Chief Revenue Officer, Salesforce

Miguel Milano, President & Chief Revenue Officer, Salesforce

Miguel Milano is President and Chief Revenue Officer at Salesforce. In his role, Miguel is responsible for accelerating customer success by leading worldwide sales and distribution of Salesforce products and services. Miguel rejoined Salesforce after having successfully led Salesforce international sales organizations across Asia-Pacific; Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA); and Latin America from 2011–2020. Most recently, he served as co-owner and Chief Revenue Officer for Celonis, leading the sales, customer success, and partner organizations. Previously, he was a member of the EMEA executive management team at Oracle and held leadership positions in several other leading global companies, including McKinsey and Telefónica. Miguel holds a B.S. and M.S.E. in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and an MBA from Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Last Updated: 02/28/2024
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Nathalie Scardino, President & Chief People Officer, Salesforce

Nathalie Scardino, President & Chief People Officer, Salesforce

Nathalie Scardino is President & Chief People Officer at Salesforce. She’s responsible for leading the Global Employee Success organization, including leveraging AI to drive employee engagement, hiring and workforce planning, equality initiatives, and cultivating its award-winning, values-led culture. With more than a decade at Salesforce, Nathalie is leading employees through the digital labor revolution, and accelerating the adoption of AI agents in the workplace. She is committed to making Salesforce a best place to work for employees who want to grow their careers, leading innovative reskilling programs like Career Connect to help employees learn critical skills for a future with AI agents. Previously, Nathalie served as the company’s head of recruiting, onboarding, and employee learning — a unique role focused on the full candidate lifecycle from recruiting and onboarding to ongoing employee development and upskilling. Prior to joining Salesforce, Nathalie worked at Reed Elsevier (now RELX Group), starting in sales and then moving into executive search focused on the technology and digital transformation practice. She was responsible for identifying C-suite and senior-level leadership talent, in addition to driving succession planning for both public and early-stage companies. Nathalie serves on the board of San Francisco Youth Theatre and the CHRO Academy at the University of California, Berkeley. Nathalie holds a B.A. from Goldsmiths, University of London, and lives in San Francisco with her husband and their two sons.
Last Updated: 03/06/2025
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Sabastian Niles, President & Chief Legal Officer, Salesforce

Sabastian Niles, President & Chief Legal Officer, Salesforce

Sabastian Niles is President and Chief Legal Officer of Salesforce. Salesforce empowers companies of every size and industry to connect with their customers through the power of data + AI + CRM + trust. Sabastian is a member of the executive leadership team reporting to Salesforce Chair and CEO Marc Benioff and a strategic advisor to Salesforce and its board of directors. In his Chief Legal Officer role, he oversees Salesforce’s global legal and corporate affairs teams, including global government affairs, and works to advance Salesforce’s global growth and effectiveness priorities and uphold Salesforce’s values of trust, customer success, innovation, equality and sustainability. Prior to joining Salesforce, Sabastian was a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where he worked with U.S. and international companies navigating corporate transformations, creating value through innovation, and sustaining stakeholder trust. His wide-ranging client work included developing and leading teams advising CEOs, boards of directors, and senior executives on corporate governance, enterprise risk oversight, strategic and financial investments, alliances, mergers and acquisitions. He advised companies in anticipating and resolving activist investor campaigns, advancing sustainability priorities, strengthening stakeholder and shareholder relationships, and deepening corporate purpose to create value and fortify culture. Sabastian is a member of the Aspen Institute’s Business & Society board of advisors, an elected fellow of the American College of Governance Counsel, a member of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware and an Advisory Board member of the Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership at Columbia Law School. He is also a director of the nonprofit organization Literacy Partners, which focuses on empowering families, adult learners, caregivers, and children through the power of literacy, education, and language skills. Sabastian earned a law degree from Harvard Law School, where he co-founded the Harvard Association of Law and Business. He received degrees in finance, economics, and decision and information sciences from the University of Maryland.
Last Updated: 02/28/2024
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Srini Tallapragada – President & Chief Engineering and Customer Success Officer

Srini Tallapragada is President and Chief Engineering and Customer Success Officer at Salesforce. He leads the global engineering teams responsible for delivering Salesforce’s unified platform, applications, infrastructure, and security, as well as the company’s customer success and professional services teams – driving global adoption of Agentforce, Salesforce’s digital labor platform. Srini has spent more than a decade at Salesforce delivering industry-leading product and platform innovations, including Lightning, Einstein, Hyperforce, and Data Cloud. Since 2012, he has served as President, Chief Engineering Officer, EVP, and SVP of Engineering, before assuming his current role in 2025. Prior to joining Salesforce, Srini held roles at Oracle and SAP leading the development of core enterprise software applications. Srini serves on the board of directors of GoDaddy. He holds a PGDM from XLRI in Jamshedpur, India, and a BTech in computer science from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Warangal, India.
Last Updated: 06/11/2025
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Steve Fisher - President & Chief Product Officer

Steve Fisher – President & Chief Product Officer

Steve Fisher is President and Chief Product Officer at Salesforce, where he oversees Product, User Experience, and Digital Enterprise Technology. Since rejoining Salesforce in 2021, Steve’s global product teams have delivered some of the fastest-growing innovations in the company’s history, including Data Cloud and Agentforce. Steve has 35 years of technology leadership experience. He previously spent a decade at Salesforce in a variety of leadership roles spearheading the company's innovation strategy, including as EVP of Technology. He then joined eBay as SVP and CTO, where he oversaw the company’s product experience, technology platform, and payments initiatives. Steve serves on the board of directors of BILL and Copart. He holds a B.S. in Mathematical and Computational Science and a M.S. in computer science from Stanford University.
Last Updated: 06/11/2025
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Suzanne DiBianca - Executive Vice President & Chief Impact Officer

Suzanne DiBianca – Executive Vice President & Chief Impact Officer

Suzanne DiBianca is the Executive Vice President and Chief Impact Officer at Salesforce, where she leads the company’s global impact strategy, including corporate relations, sustainability, and integrating social and environmental responsibility into the company’s core operations. A trailblazer in corporate impact, Suzanne is helping define what it means to lead with purpose in the AI era, championing innovation, investing in transformative solutions, and shaping policies to ensure AI is developed responsibly and equitably. She also oversees Salesforce’s global philanthropy efforts, focusing on climate action and education. Under her leadership, Salesforce supports nonprofits and schools on the frontlines of change, scaling bold climate solutions and expanding access to AI literacy and tools for educators and young people to help shape a more sustainable future for all. A 25-year Salesforce veteran, Suzanne co-founded the Salesforce Foundation and Salesforce.org, helping pioneer the 1-1-1 model of corporate philanthropy, now embraced by over 20,000 companies. Her leadership has expanded Salesforce’s impact to 50,000 nonprofits and higher ed institutions, supporting millions of students through STEM programs. She also led initiatives like the Salesforce Ventures Impact Fund and Salesforce Military. Suzanne serves on multiple councils for the United Nations and the World Economic Forum. She is a board director and trustee at the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, and board director at JGI. Suzanne is also a Senior Advisor to Lightrock, and on the Advisory Board at South Pole. She has been recognized on TIME's inaugural 100 Most Influential Climate Leaders in Business 2023 list. Suzanne holds a degree in economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Last Updated: 04/14/2025
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