Marc Benioff

Accomplishments

• Co-founded Salesforce in 1999 and serves as chair and CEO.¹
• Created the 1-1-1 philanthropy model and co-founded Pledge 1%.¹
• Elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019.¹

Founding Salesforce

Benioff founded Salesforce in 1999 after 13 years at Oracle, where Benioff was the youngest vice president in company history. Salesforce pioneered delivering enterprise applications as a cloud service.¹

Leadership and philanthropy

As chair, CEO and co-founder, Benioff guides Salesforce's product and values strategy, including trust, customer success, innovation, equality and sustainability. On day one Benioff created the 1-1-1 model of philanthropy and later co-founded the Pledge 1% movement.¹

Benioff is owner and co-chair of TIME, founder of TIME Ventures, a member of the World Economic Forum Board of Trustees, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019.¹

Timeline

1. 1999Benioff founded Salesforce.¹
2. 2019Benioff was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering.¹

Other documented roles

Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.

• Vice President, Oracle (1999)¹

Honors and recognition

• Member, National Academy of Engineering · National Academy of Engineering, 2019¹

Where they work

• Salesforce 5 people in the wiki

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