Marc Benioff
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Marc Benioff is Chairman & CEO of Salesforce.com, a leading CRM company he founded in March 1999. Born Marc Russell Benioff on September 25, 1964 in San Francisco, California USA.
Benioff prominently expouses his philanthropic philosophy, with a book titled Compassionate Capitalism, and the July 2000 launch of the Salesforce Foundation, a vehicle through which "the company contributes 1 percent of profits, 1 percent of equity, and 1 percent of employee hours back to the communities it serves." On September 2006, he released his second book, The Business of Changing the World.
Prior to founding salesforce.com, Benioff was at Oracle Corporation for 13 years in a variety of executive positions in sales, marketing, and product development. Before joining Oracle, Benioff worked at Apple Computer and founded Liberty Software. Benioff received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Southern California in 1986.
Benioff has an affinity towards Eastern philosophy: he meditates, practices yoga, and has met the Dalai Lama. One of his favorite books is Sun Tzu's The Art of War, a popular military treatise on strategy that teaches winning without fighting.
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Official company biography Salesforce.com website
San Francisco Chronicle interview
Sonshi.com interview
