Marc Benioff
Chair & CEO of salesforce.com
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Chair & CEO
1999 - Current
Marc Benioff is Chair, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Salesforce and a pioneer of cloud computing. Under Benioff's leadership, Salesforce is the #1 provider of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software globally. Benioff was named “Innovator of the Decade” by Forbes and is recognized as one of the World’s 25 Greatest Leaders by Fortune and one of the 10 Best-Performing CEOs by Harvard Business Review. For his leadership on equality, Benioff has been honored by GLAAD, the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative and Variety Magazine with its EmPOWerment Award. A member of the World Economic Forum ("WEF") Board of Trustees, Benioff serves as the inaugural Chair of WEF's Forum Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in San Francisco. Benioff received a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Southern California, where he is on its Board of Trustees.
Salesforce is a cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management software and applications.
Raised $65,375,124.00 from Starboard Value.
Senior Vice President
1986 - 1999
Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Intern, Macintosh 68000 Development System
1984 - 1984
Wrote the example assemby language programs for the Macintosh 68000 Development System during summer of 1984.
Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets consumer electronics, personal computers, and software.
Raised $1,170,230,000.00 from KB Securities, Berkshire Hathaway and Microsoft.
Education
B.S.B.A.
1982 - 1986