CEOI MEMBER SINCE 2017

Marc Benioff is chair, CEO, and co-founder of Salesforce and a pioneer of cloud computing. Under Mr. Benioff’s leadership, Salesforce is the No. 1 provider of customer relationship management (CRM) software globally. He 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. For his leadership on equality, Mr. 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, Mr. 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. Mr. Benioff is the owner and co-chair of TIME, and the founder of TIME Ventures — a leading investment firm with more than 200 investments. He is author of the New York Times bestseller Trailblazer: The Power of Business as the Greatest Platform for Change. Mr. Benioff received a BS degree in business administration from the University of Southern California, and currently serves on its board of trustees.