Kendall Collins

Kendall Collins is the President & CEO of Government Cloud at Salesforce, overseeing Salesforce’s business and portfolio of products that support governments around the world, as well as Salesforce’s government affairs work. In his role, Kendall partners closely with government and technology leaders to advance government modernization, deliver trusted AI, data, and cloud solutions that accelerate agency missions, and establish frameworks for the responsible and secure use of technology in the public sector.

Prior to leading Government Cloud, Kendall was the Chief Business Officer and Chief of Staff to Marc Benioff at Salesforce, where he was responsible for leading strategic company initiatives, business model transformation, and customer relationships for the Office of the Chair and CEO. Kendall was also an executive at Salesforce from 2004 to 2016, where he held roles across sales, product, and marketing, including as EVP and CEO of Salesforce Cloud, EVP and GM for Collaboration, and Global CMO. He and his teams led Salesforce customers through a period of rapid innovation as the company expanded its portfolio of clouds and developed groundbreaking social, mobile, and AI technologies for CRM.

Kendall was previously CMO of Okta, CMO of AppDynamics (Cisco), and GM for Enterprise Software at WeWork. He has also served as Executive in Residence at Accel Partners. He graduated with a B.S. in commerce with distinction from the University of Virginia, a concentration in East Asian studies, and studied at National Taiwan University.