The Salesforce board of directors is an exceptional group of
individuals who have helped, advised, and established many of
the premier companies of Silicon Valley.
The current board of directors at Salesforce is comprised
of:
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Marc Benioff, Chairman & CEO
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Keith Block, Vice Chairman and President
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Craig Conway, Former CEO, PeopleSoft
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Alan Hassenfeld, Director, Hasbro, Inc.
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Colin Powell, General, Former U.S. Secretary of State, Former
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Sanford Robertson, Principal, Francisco Partners
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John V. Roos, Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan
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Larry Tomlinson, Former Senior Vice President, Treasurer,
Hewlett-Packard
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Robin L. Washington, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer,
Gilead Sciences Inc.
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Maynard Webb, Chairman, Yahoo! Inc.
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Susan Wojcicki, CEO, YouTube
Marc Benioff
Chairman & CEO
Marc Benioff is chairman and CEO of Salesforce. One of the
pioneers of cloud computing, Benioff founded the company in
1999 with a vision to create an on-demand, information
management service to replace traditional enterprise software
technology. Under his leadership, Salesforce has grown from a
groundbreaking idea into the fastest growing top ten software
company in the world and the largest customer relationship
management (CRM) company.
Salesforce’s mobile, social and connected cloud technologies
help companies create deeper, more meaningful connections with
their customers. For its revolutionary approach, Salesforce
has been named the World’s Most Innovative Company four years
in a row by
Forbes Magazine.
Fortune Magazine named Salesforce as the World’s Most Admired Company in
the software industry two years in a row, and ranked the
company #7 among the World’s Best Places to Work.
Benioff has been widely recognized for his visionary
leadership and pioneering innovation. He was named
Businessperson of the Year by
Fortune readers, one of the Best CEOs in the World by
Barron’s, and he received
The Economist’s Innovation Award. He served as co-chairman of the
President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee from
2003–2005.
Throughout his
career, Benioff has evangelized a new model of integrated
corporate philanthropy. In 2000, he launched the Salesforce
Foundation and established the “1-1-1 model,” whereby the
company contributes one percent of product, one percent of
equity, and one percent of employee hours back to the
communities it serves globally. Today, the Foundation has
inspired other leading corporations to adopt the 1-1-1 model.
Benioff has focused his personal philanthropy on advancing
children’s health care through UCSF Benioff Children’s
Hospitals.
Benioff is a
35-year veteran of the software industry. Prior to launching
Salesforce, he spent 13 years at Oracle Corporation. He
founded his first company, Liberty Software, which created
video games, at the age of 15. He also worked as an assembly
language programmer in
Apple Computer’s Macintosh Division during his college years. Benioff received a Bachelor of
Science in Business Administration in 1986 and an honorary
degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 2014 from the University
of Southern California.
He is the author of three books, including the national
best-seller,
Behind the Cloud.
Keith Block
Vice Chairman and President
As Vice Chairman, a member of the Board of Directors and
President of Salesforce, Keith Block leads the company’s
Distribution Organization, which includes global sales,
alliances and channels, customer support, and consulting
services. With a focus on customer transformation and building
long-term relationships, Block has managed world-class sales,
consulting and engineering teams for nearly 30 years.
At Salesforce, he is tasked with driving the company’s next
decade of growth by expanding Salesforce’s high-performing
sales organization, growing its market-leading alliances and
channels program, extending the company further into
international markets, and applying Salesforce’s award-winning
platform to key industries, such as healthcare, financial
services, retail, manufacturing and more.
Prior to joining Salesforce, Block served as Oracle’s
executive vice president of North America Sales and
Consulting, leading an 11,000-person team and building a
multi-billion dollar sales business unit that achieved record
revenue and margin during his tenure. He began his career
at
Booz Allen Hamilton as a senior consultant to Air Force executives.
Block currently serves on Salesforce’s Board of Directors,
the Board of Trustees at the Concord Museum, the Advisory
Board at Carnegie-Mellon University Heinz Graduate School, the
President’s Advisory Council and Board of Trustees for
Carnegie Mellon University.
Block holds an Master’s of Science degree in Management and
Policy Analysis and a Bachelor’s of Science degree in
Information Systems from Carnegie-Mellon University
Craig Conway
Former CEO, PeopleSoft
Craig Conway has enjoyed one of the most distinguished and
successful careers in the technology industry. He has been
recognized as one of the Top 25 Managers by
BusinessWeek, one of the Ten Most Influential People In High Technology
by , and one of the Fifty Most Powerful People in Networking
by
NetworkWorld.
As president and chief
executive officer, Conway has led several technology companies
to success including most recently, PeopleSoft. Conway joined
PeopleSoft in 1999 and began one of the most dramatic
turnarounds in the technology industry. His vision to develop
the industry's first pure Internet architecture, determination
to expand into new products and markets, and intense focus on
execution drove PeopleSoft to become the world's
second-largest provider of business software. In 2002
Fortune magazine named PeopleSoft the Second Most Admired
Company, and
Forbes magazine named PeopleSoft one of Five Overachieving
Companies.
On June 2,
2003, Conway announced the acquisition of JD Edwards,
making
PeopleSoft a $2.9 billion company with 12,000 customers in 150 countries
and starting a wave of industry consolidation. Four days later
PeopleSoft itself became a takeover target by Oracle, and so
began the longest hostile takeover attempt in history.
Eighteen months later PeopleSoft was sold for $10.3 billion,
almost $4 billion more than Oracle's initial offer and $7
billion more than the value of the company when Conway took
over as CEO.
Conway has
also served as president and CEO of TGV Software and One Touch
Systems. He has also held executive management positions at a
variety of leading technology companies including executive
vice president at Oracle.
Alan Hassenfeld
Director, Hasbro, Inc.
Alan Hassenfeld is a director of Hasbro, a worldwide leader in
children's and family leisure time entertainment with $2.9
billion in revenues and an impressive blue-chip portfolio of
familiar and popular brand names such as PLAYSKOOL, TONKA,
MILTON BRADLEY, and PARKER BROTHERS. Hassenfeld began his
career at Hasbro in 1970. He was appointed vice president of
marketing and sales in 1978, became the president of the
company in 1984, and received the titles of chairman and CEO
in 1989. In May 2003, he passed on the responsibilities of CEO
in order to fully concentrate on his position as chairman and
served as chairman until February 2008. Hassenfeld sits on the
board of the Salesforce Foundation as well as Hasbro's two
philanthropic divisions, the Hasbro Charitable Trust and the
Hasbro Children's Foundation. He is the former chairman of the
Right Now! Coalition and Admiral of Rhode Island Commodores (a
governor-appointed business advisory group). Hassenfeld is the
recipient of the Honorary Doctor of Humanities Award from
Bryant College and the Honorary Doctor of Business degree from
Roger Williams University and Johnson and Wales University.
Colin Powell
General, Former U.S. Secretary of State, Former Chairman,
Joint Chiefs of Staff
General Colin Powell is a retired four star general and served
for 35 years in the United States Army. He has served as U.S.
National Security Advisor, Commander of the U.S. Army Forces
Command, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and he was the
65th Secretary of State of the United States. He is the
recipient of numerous U.S. military awards as well as two
Presidential Medals of Freedom. General Powell is a strategic
limited partner at
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Council on
Foreign Relations. General Powell is the Chair of the Board of
Visitors of the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global
Leadership at his alma mater, the City College of New York.
The Powell School was inaugurated May of 2013 and stands
alongside CCNY’s other premiere named schools. He is the
Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the America’s Promise
Alliance, dedicated to forging a strong and effective
partnership alliance committed to seeing that children have
the fundamental resources they need to succeed.
Sanford Robertson
Principal, Francisco Partners
Sanford Robertson pioneered the creation of West Coast
technology banking as an industry in the late 1960s and has
remained one of the industry's most renowned participants. He
served as vice president and director at Smith Barney before
founding a firm that later became Montgomery Securities. In
1978, he founded Robertson, Stephens & Co, one of the most
significant underwriters of IPOs, mergers, and acquisitions.
After selling the company in 1998, he founded Francisco
Partners, the world's largest technology-focused private
equity fund. Robertson has had significant financing
involvement in over 500 growth technology companies, including
3Com (NASDAQ: COMS), America Online (NYSE: AOL), Applied
Materials (NASDAQ: AMAT), Ascend, Dell Computer (NASDAQ:
DELL), E*Trade (NYSE: ET),
Siebel, and
Sun (NASDAQ: SUNW). He serves on the boards of
Dolby Laboratories, Pain Therapeutics (NASDAQ: PTIE), and the
Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving, as well as on the President's Board at the University of
Michigan.
John V. Roos
Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan
John Roos is a former United States Ambassador to Japan and a
former technology lawyer. Before accepting the ambassadorship
from President Barack Obama, Roos was the CEO of Silicon
Valley-based law firm
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
Roos served as the
U.S. Ambassador to Japan from 2009 to 2013, a historic period
in U.S.-Japan relations where he played a key role in managing
the relationship through major transitions of government. Roos
led the American mission to support Japan's response to the
devastating 9.0 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crisis on
March 11, 2011. In October 2011, citing his tireless and
effective leadership after March 11, the Department of State
awarded Roos the prestigious Sue E. Cobb 2011 Award for
Exemplary Diplomatic Service.
Prior to his ambassadorship, Roos served as Chief Executive
Officer and Senior Partner at
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the leading law firm in the U.S. in the representation of
technology, life sciences, and emerging growth companies.
There he helped lead his firm during the waves of innovation
in Silicon Valley, from the growth of software and
communications, to the Internet Age, to the emergence of
biotechnology, clean technology and renewable energy, to the
social media revolution.
Roos grew up in San Francisco and attended Stanford
University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with Honors and
Distinction, and Stanford Law School, earning his Juris Doctor
in 1980, achieving Order of the Coif. Throughout his career,
Roos has been active in public service, serving on a public
school board in California from 1991 to 1999. Prior to
becoming Ambassador to Japan, Roos served on the Stanford
School of Education Dean's Advisory Board and on the Law
School Dean's Advisory Council. He was elected to membership
in the Stanford Associates for his long-standing volunteer
service to the University.
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Maynard Webb
Chairman, Yahoo! Inc.
Maynard Webb is chairman of Yahoo! Inc and a director at
Everwise and VISA. He has more than 30 years of experience
developing and leading high-growth companies. Webb served as
chief executive officer for LiveOps from 2006 to 2011. Prior to
LiveOps, he was the chief operating officer at eBay from 2002 to
2006 and was responsible for the company-wide implementation of
all business strategies. Previously, he served as president of
eBay Technologies, where he was responsible for all engineering
and technical operations at eBay, including product and
technology strategy, engineering, architecture, site operations,
and customer support.
Prior
to joining eBay, Webb was senior vice president and chief
information officer at Gateway, where he contributed to the
company's rapid expansion and Internet-enabled business
operations. In years prior, he has also worked at Quantum,
Thomas-Conrad Corporation, Bay Networks, and IBM. Webb is the
founder of the Webb Investment Network, an early-stage venture
capital firm in Los Gatos, Calif., and co-founder of Everwise, a
cloud-based mentoring program.
Webb received a bachelor's degree from Florida Atlantic
University.
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Susan Wojcicki
CEO, YouTube
Susan Wojcicki is CEO of YouTube, the world’s most popular
digital video platform used by a billion people across the globe
to access information, share video, and shape culture. An early
champion of online video, Wojcicki was instrumental in Google's
2006 acquisition of YouTube. She now oversees YouTube's content
and business operations, engineering, and product
development.
Prior to
joining YouTube in February 2014, Wojcicki was senior vice
president of Advertising & Commerce at Google, where she
oversaw the design and engineering of AdWords,
AdSense, DoubleClick, and Google Analytics. She joined Google in 1999
as the company's first marketing manager and led the initial
development of several key consumer products, including Google
Images and Google Books. In 2002, Wojcicki began working on
Google’s advertising products and over the next 12 years she led
teams that helped define the vision and direction of Google’s
monetization platforms.
Wojcicki graduated with honors from Harvard University, holds
a master's in Economics from University of California, Santa
Cruz, and an MBA from UCLA.
