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`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.
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`The current board of directors at Salesforce is comprised of:
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`Marc Benioff, Chairman & CEO
`Keith Block, Vice Chairman and President
`Craig Conway, Former CEO, PeopleSoft
`Alan Hassenfeld, Director, Hasbro, Inc.
`Colin Powell, General, Former U.S. Secretary of State,
`Former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
`Sanford Robertson, Principal, Francisco Partners
`John V. Roos, Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan
`Larry Tomlinson, Former Senior Vice President, Treasurer,
`Hewlett-Packard
`Robin L. Washington, Senior Vice President and Chief
`Financial Officer, Gilead Sciences Inc.
`Maynard Webb, Chairman, Yahoo! Inc.
`Susan Wojcicki, CEO, YouTube
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`Marc Benioff
`Chairman & CEO
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`Marc Benioff is chairman and CEO of Salesforce. One of the pioneers
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`of cloud computing, Benioff founded the company in 1999 with a
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`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.
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`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.
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`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.
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`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.
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`Benioff is a 35-year veteran of the software industry. Prior to
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`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.
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`He is the author of three books, including the national best-seller,
`Behind the Cloud.
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`Keith Block
`Vice Chairman and President
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`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
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`teams for nearly 30 years.
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`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.
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`Prior to joining Salesforce, Block served as Oracle’s executive vice
`president of North America Sales and Consulting, leading an 11,000-
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`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.
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`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.
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`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
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`Craig Conway
`Former CEO, PeopleSoft
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`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.
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`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
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`magazine named PeopleSoft one of Five Overachieving Companies.
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`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.
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`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.
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`Alan Hassenfeld
`Director, Hasbro, Inc.
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`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
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`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.
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`Colin Powell
`General, Former U.S. Secretary of State, Former Chairman, Joint
`Chiefs of Staff
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`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.
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`Sanford Robertson
`Principal, Francisco Partners
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`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.
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`John V. Roos
`Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan
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`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.
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`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.
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`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.
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`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.
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`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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`Larry Tomlinson
`Former Senior Vice President and Treasurer, Hewlett-Packard
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`With over 35 years of global financial and administrative experience
`in a Fortune 15 corporation, Larry Tomlinson has substantial
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`expertise in focusing management
`on achieving revenue and margin
`objectives during periods of both
`double-digit and slow growth.
`Since beginning his career at
`Hewlett-Packard in 1965,
`Tomlinson has held management
`and executive positions in multiple
`domestic and international
`divisions with responsibilities
`spanning controllership, tax,
`treasury, order fulfillment,
`information technology, distribution, logistics, and financial strategic
`alliances. He formerly served as senior vice president and treasurer
`for Hewlett-Packard. Tomlinson currently serves as a director of
`Coherent.
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`Robin L. Washington
`Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Gilead Sciences
`Inc.
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`Washington joined Gilead in 2008
`and is currently Senior Vice
`President and Chief Financial
`Officer where she oversees the
`Global Finance and Information
`Technology organizations.
`Washington was previously Chief
`Financial Officer of Hyperion
`Solutions, which was acquired by
`Oracle Corporation in March 2007.
`Prior to that, Washington served in
`a number of executive positions
`with PeopleSoft, most recently in the role of Senior Vice President
`and Corporate Controller.
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`Washington previously served on the Board of Directors of Tektronix,
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`Inc. (acquired by Danaher), the Board of Directors of MIPS
`Technologies Inc. (acquired by Imagination), and currently is a
`member of the Board of Directors of Honeywell, the Board of
`Directors of the San Jose Children's Discovery Museum and the
`Board of Visitors, Graziadio School of Business and Management,
`Pepperdine University.
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`Washington is a certified public accountant and holds a bachelor's
`degree in business administration from the University of Michigan
`and a M.B.A. from Pepperdine University.
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`Maynard Webb
`Chairman, Yahoo! Inc.
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`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.
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`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
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`the Webb Investment Network, an early-stage venture capital firm in
`Los Gatos, Calif., and co-founder of Everwise, a cloud-based
`mentoring program.
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`Webb received a bachelor's degree from Florida Atlantic University.
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`Susan Wojcicki
`CEO, YouTube
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`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.
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`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.
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`Wojcicki graduated with honors from Harvard University, holds a
`master's in Economics from University of California, Santa Cruz, and
`an MBA from UCLA.
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