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Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO, salesforce.com
Looking to create an information utility that would make traditional enterprise software
technology obsolete, Marc Benioff founded salesforce.com in March 1999. A 25-year veteran of the
software industry, Benioff is now regarded as an “End of Software” pioneer. Under Benioff's
direction, salesforce.com has grown from a groundbreaking idea into a publicly traded company that
is the market and technology leader in on-demand business services. World Economic Forum's Global
Leaders of Tomorrow (class of 2002), Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year, Business Week‘s
ebiz 25, Business 2.0‘s 50 People Who Matter Now, and FORTUNE Magazine’s Top 10 Entrepreneurs.
Prior to founding salesforce.com, Benioff spent 13 years at Oracle, most recently as an SVP
reporting to chairman Larry Ellison, a founding investor of salesforce.com. Before Oracle, Benioff
held positions at Apple Computer and Liberty Software. He received his B.S. in Business
Administration from the University of Southern California in 1986.
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John Chambers, Chairman & CEO, Cisco Systems
John Chambers has been lauded worldwide for his visionary strategy, ability to drive a
business, and warm-hearted, straight-talking approach. Chambers joined Cisco in 1991 as SVP of
Worldwide Sales and Operations, and assumed the role of President and CEO in 1995. Since then,
Cisco has grown from $1.2 billion in annual revenues to its current rate of $30 billion. Prior to
Cisco, Chambers spent eight years at Wang Laboratories and six with IBM. He has received numerous
awards, including Investor Magazine’s Best CEO in America award, the Excellence in Corporate
Philanthropy award, the Award for Corporate Excellence from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,
the Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship, and the Presidential “Ron Brown Award for
Corporate Leadership.” He has spearheaded several key educational efforts and served two American
presidents, most recently as Vice Chairman of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC).
He also served on President Bush's Transition Team and Education Committee and previously served on
President Clinton's Trade Policy Committee. Mr. Chambers holds a law degree (‘74) and a BS/BA (‘71)
in business from West Virginia University, and he received his MBA (‘75) from Indiana University.
He is married and has two adult children.
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Nick Carr, Author of
The Big Switch: Our New Digital Destiny
A former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, Nicholas Carr is an acclaimed
business writer and speaker whose work centers on strategy, innovation, and technology. His 2004
book,
Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of
Competitive Advantage, published by Harvard Business School Press, set off a worldwide
debate about the role of computers in business. His next book,
The Big Switch: Our New Digital Destiny, examines the
future of computing and its implications for business and society.
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John Ciacchella, Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP
John Ciacchella’s 20-plus year career as a technology advisor combines his considerable
tenure in the consulting arena with eight-plus years of direct industry experience in the
semiconductor and electronics industry, where he held key positions in marketing, R&D, and
manufacturing. He holds two patents in semiconductor processing technology applications. At
Deloitte Consulting, Mr. Ciacchella is a principal in the strategy and operations practice and
leads Deloitte Consulting's technology industry practice.
Mr. Ciacchella holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Systems Management from the
University of San Francisco, and an MBA in Technology Management from Golden Gate University.
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Bruce Chizen, Chief Executive Officer, Adobe Systems
Incorporated
Since becoming CEO in 2000, Bruce Chizen has transformed Adobe into one of the world's
largest, most diversified software companies. He has spearheaded innovation and growth in Adobe’s
design software business, and expansion into new markets like enterprise and mobile. In 2005,
Chizen led Adobe’s successful $3.4 billion acquisition of Macromedia, Inc
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Dave Duffield, Chief Executive Officer, Workday
Dave Duffield is an accomplished software industry executive and visionary. He has an
extensive history of pioneering new ground in business applications.
Dave founded PeopleSoft in 1987 and served as the company's CEO and board chairman. He was
responsible for the company's vision, product and market direction, commitment to customer service,
and values based culture. Prior to PeopleSoft, Dave established two other application software
companies. He was CEO, chairman, and chief product architect at Integral Systems and he co-founded
Information Associates which specialized in applications for the higher education market.
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Parker Harris, Executive Vice President of Technology,
salesforce.com
Parker Harris, an original founder of salesforce.com, oversees the research and development
of all salesforce.com software. Harris previously developed Web applications and sales force
automation at Left Coast Software, a private consulting company he co-founded, as well as at
Metropolis software, an early pioneer in field sales force automation subsequently acquired by
Clarify. Harris has 15+ years of software engineering and management experience, and graduated from
Middlebury College with a Bachelor's Degree in English Literature.
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Josh James, Chief Executive Officer, Omniture Incorporated
Josh James is the CEO and co-founder of Omniture, a leader in the emerging, high-growth
market of online business optimization. Omniture was one of the highest performing IPO's on the
NASDAQ for 2006, and has been sited by Ziff Davis as the fastest organically growing public
software company. Mr. James is a pioneer in the on-demand market, a founder of three other
successful high-tech companies, and was the recipient of the 2006 Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of
the Year award. Through his leadership and visionary business practices, Omniture has earned the
highest customer retention rate in the industry-with marquee clients including eBay, AOL, Wal-Mart,
Gannett, Microsoft, Oracle, GM, Countrywide, and HP.
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George Lucas, Chairman,George Lucas Educational Foundation
(GLEF)
Widely known as a master storyteller and innovative filmmaker, George Lucas is also a
visionary leader when it comes to education. He believes the same technology tools that have
transformed filmmaking can also revolutionize education and that multimedia can help students
express their multiple intelligences.
As founder and chairman of The George Lucas Educational Foundation, founded in 1991, George
has led GLEF on a mission to document and disseminate the best examples of project-based learning,
Internet-based lessons, and involvement of communities and experts in schools. He believes that
when the public “sees” through documentary films how digital age classrooms function, greater
consensus on the changes needed in our public schools will result.
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Jim Steele, President, salesforce.com
As president of salesforce.com’s worldwide operations, Jim Steele oversees global sales,
services, and support. He’s charged with advancing the company’s winning software-as-a-service
strategy and growing the enterprise customer base. Jim joined salesforce.com in October 2002 from
Ariba, where he served as executive vice president of worldwide sales. There, he was responsible
for global customer satisfaction, expansion of direct and indirect sales channels worldwide, and
increased penetration in vertical markets. Steele brings 25 years of technology sales and executive
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