Alexandra (Ally) Legend Siegel is Senior Vice President and Chief Equality and Engagement Officer at Salesforce where she leads the company’s global equality and talent engagement strategy. Ally is a seasoned HR, equality, and marketing leader with deep experience driving talent, culture, technology, and industry transformations. As a founding member of Salesforce’s Office of Equality, she returned to lead the equality, employee engagement and brand, recruitment marketing, employee volunteering, and HR executive comms teams. In her role, she is focused on unlocking engagement, opportunity, and innovation in the future of AI and Agent technology. Previously, Ally served as Vice President and Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion - Talent, at Expedia Group. In this role, she led business transformation to build equal opportunities and drive innovation within the company and travel industry. In 2018, she was named among Business Insider’s 30 and Under Rising Stars in Tech for her impact and nominated for AdColor's Change Agent Award. She has also been recognized as one of the Top Women in Travel and Hospitality in 2023 for her executive leadership role driving company and industry transformation at Expedia Group. Ally currently serves as a board member for Big Brother Big Sister Bay Area, helping youth achieve their full potential through mentorship, and as the Executive in Residence for Mills College at Northeastern, providing coaching for students and university leaders on technology careers and fostering inclusion on campus.

Bill Patterson is executive vice president and general manager of CRM Applications at Salesforce, where he leads product innovation, growth and customer success for Salesforce Sales Cloud, Service Cloud and Revenue Cloud. Most recently, Bill led development of Salesforce Work.com, a set of new technology solutions to help business and community leaders around the world reopen safely, re-skill employees and respond efficiently on the heels of COVID-19. A former software engineer and enterprise solutions architect, Bill joined Salesforce in 2017 after a 14-year career at Microsoft, where he held various leadership roles across product strategy, product management, product marketing and software engineering. Throughout his career, Bill has helped Fortune 1000 companies design and deploy strategic customer engagement, contact center and field service solutions. His passion is in helping companies connect with their customers and elevating the strategic importance of customer engagement tools to drive their businesses forward.

Brad is Chief Trust Officer at Salesforce, the #1 AI CRM. He oversees the company’s security strategy, building trust with stakeholders, and protecting customer data in an AI-first world. Previously, he was Chief Security and Trust Officer at Cisco, and served as the security chief at Adobe for 12 years. He holds a B.S. in computer science and mathematics from the College of William and Mary, M.S. in computer science from GWU, and an MBA from Columbia University and London Business School.

Casey Coleman is senior vice president of Global Government Solutions at Salesforce, where she is responsible for enterprise positioning and solution strategies for government customers worldwide. Before joining Salesforce, Casey served as chief information officer at the U.S. General Services Administration. There she led several modernization initiatives, including the first agency-wide move to cloud-based email and collaboration platforms. Casey chaired the federal CIO Council’s Cloud First committee that developed the FedRAMP standard for cloud cybersecurity. Casey began her career as an engineer with Lockheed Martin and has held sales, consulting and management roles at several technology startups focused on the enterprise IT space. Casey holds several honors and awards from various organizations, including the Computerworld Premier 100 Award and the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium Award for Leadership in Innovation. She is a three-time winner of the Federal Computer Week Federal 100 Award. Casey holds an MBA in Finance and International Business from the University of Texas at Arlington, as well as a B.S. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University.

Ed is a privacy, policy, and technology industry veteran, having served in various leadership roles throughout his career. Ed recently joined Salesforce to lead its Global Privacy Team. Ed’s team spans the globe, working on cutting-edge privacy and data protection regulatory and legislative matters on behalf of Salesforce and its customers. Previously, Ed served in leadership roles at Microsoft, on both the privacy and government affairs teams, providing extensive advice and counsel on GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, the recently-passed CDPA (in Virginia) and comprehensive data protection laws and data sovereignty measures that have been proposed and/or implemented around the world, including in China, India, Brazil, Russia, Canada, Australia, Kenya, and many other jurisdictions. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2014, Ed worked as an attorney in the Washington D.C. office of Alston & Bird, on a team that included former Senate Majority Leaders Bob Dole and Tom Daschle, where he covered privacy and a range of other legislative and public policy issues.

Hugh Gamble serves as Vice President of Federal Government Affairs for Salesforce where he manages the company's Federal Government Affairs for the United States and Canada. Since joining the company in January of 2015, he has helped lead Salesforce's government relations and public policy for the company through a period of substantial growth and increased engagement with government. Prior to joining Salesforce, Hugh worked in several positions on Capitol Hill, including as Legislative Director & Chief Counsel for U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, as Counsel for U.S. Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi, and as General Counsel for U.S. Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi. Hugh holds both a B.S. in Computer Science from Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, and a J.D. from the University of Mississippi School of Law in Oxford, Mississippi. He now lives with his wife and son in Alexandria, Virginia.

John Kucera is Senior Vice President of Product Management at Salesforce and leads the Automation Services product team. He is responsible for Einstein Chatbots, Flow, and Einstein Next Best Action. John also drives the Einstein Automate vision across the Salesforce Platform, Mulesoft, and Salesforce Industries, enabling end-to-end automation, integrated across any system. John earned his BS in Electrical Engineering at Northwestern University, and his MBA in Business at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

John Somorjai is the Chief Corporate Development and Investments Officer at Salesforce. Since 2005, he has been leading the evaluation, deal execution and integration of Salesforce’s corporate strategic transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, as well as investments. John’s team has helped bring the company into significant new growth areas and onboarded a number of key leaders through more than 80 acquisitions including Airkit, Click, Convergence.ai, Datorama, Demandware, ExactTarget, MuleSoft, Own Company, Spiff, SteelBrick, Slack, Tableau and Vlocity. Since 2009, Salesforce Ventures has invested over $6 billion in over 400 leading companies including Airtable, Auth0, Box, Databricks, DocuSign, Guild Education, monday.com, nCino, Snowflake, Snyk, Stripe, Twilio, Wiz and Zoom. John’s team created the Generative AI Fund investing in some of the most promising startups including Anthropic, Cohere, Hugging Face, Mistral, RunwayML, and Typeface. John’s investment team has deployed capital across 28 countries currently in 25. There have been 36 IPOs and 175+ exits from the portfolio. John is a former member of the Board of Directors of the National Venture Capital Association. He holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.

Kat Holmes is Executive Vice President and Chief Experience Officer at Salesforce, where she's driving the future of AI, experience design, and trust. She works closely with customers to build the next generation of Salesforce products. As the author of the best-selling book Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design, Holmes works with multidisciplinary teams to set a foundation for why designing with excluded communities drives better solutions for everyone. Her work has been featured by NPR, BBC, Fast Company, Forbes, The Economist, and many more. Formerly at Microsoft and Google, she's led experience design for some of the most influential technologies in the world. She was named one of Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business and her award-winning Inclusive Design toolkit was inducted into the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper Hewitt Design Museum. Her work stems from three core values: There’s no such thing as an average human being. People should be in the lead, not just the center, of technology. Work with people you enjoy being around and make something worth making.

As a Principal Architect of Responsible AI & Tech at Salesforce, Kathy develops research-informed best practices to educate Salesforce employees, customers, and the industry on the development of responsible AI. She is a member of Singapore’s Advisory Council on the Ethical Use of AI and Data and AI Verify Foundation and on the board of EqualAI. Previously, she was a Visiting AI Fellow at NIST and a Council Member on the World Economic Forum's Global Futures Council for Data Equity. Prior to Salesforce, she worked at Google, eBay, and Oracle in User Experience Research. She is the co-author of two editions of "Understanding Your Users: A Practical Guide to User Research Methodologies." She received her MS in Engineering Psychology/Human Factors Engineering and BS in Applied Psychology from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Leah McGowen-Hare, MSEd, Trailhead Evangelist and SVP at Salesforce, is passionate about making learning accessible and empowering everyone to have a career in technology. Leah is an accomplished and dynamic Master Technical Trainer for Salesforce with over 20+ years of experience in technology; mastering a variety of roles including Consultant, Developer, Manager and Technical Trainer. Leah is one of the brains behind Be a Multiplier, a program that inspires people to be multipliers that will amplify and encourage their communities to skill up for the jobs of today and tomorrow. She uses her knowledge and experience to demystify and make technology more accessible to youth, girls, communities of color and Veterans’ through organizations such as BlackGirls Code, Technovation, Girls Who Code and Vetforce.

Lindsey Finch is Salesforce's EVP, Global Privacy, Product, AI & Cybersecurity Legal In this role, Finch leads Salesforce’s global privacy program and product legal function. A practicing attorney and Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP), Finch reports directly to Salesforce’s General Counsel. Prior to joining Salesforce in 2008, Finch was Privacy Counsel at General Electric. Before and during law school, Finch worked on privacy-related issues at the US Federal Trade Commission and the US Department of Homeland Security. Finch received her juris doctor from American University, Washington College of Law and her bachelor of arts in communication and political science from the University of California, San Diego.

Lori Castillo Martinez is Executive Vice President of Performance & Workforce Innovation at Salesforce where she leads the company’s talent strategy, including onboarding, talent mobility, workforce innovation, transformation, leadership development, and upskilling. Lori helps Salesforce’s global workforce succeed in the age of AI, ensuring that talent is evolving with the pace of innovation. This includes deploying more efficient processes and organizational structures that drive better business performance and provide every worker with the resources and opportunities to grow their career at Salesforce. Lori also spearheads integral programs that focus on skill building and internal career development. Previously, Lori served as Salesforce's Chief Equality Officer, where she implemented equity-focused strategies that enhanced decision-making and fostered a more inclusive culture, contributing to measurable improvements in employee engagement and diverse representation. Prior to that, she led as Salesforce's Head of Global Employee Relations and Equality, driving the integration of people and equality initiatives to accelerate organizational alignment and performance. Before joining Salesforce, Lori spent nearly a decade at McKesson where she created the first enterprise-wide strategy, processes and systems for key legal, ethics, and regulatory risk areas. Lori serves on the boards of How Women Lead, a community of women executives working to redefine female leadership, and LifeMoves, a nonprofit focused on ending homelessness in the Bay Area.

Marie is Senior Vice President of Industries GTM, where she runs professional services, support, sales enablement and program management. Before joining Salesforce in 2008, Marie held support, professional service, product marketing, and program management positions at Oracle, Peoplesoft, Evolve, and Primavera. She has a B.S. in Political Science from Santa Clara University. Known as the "team mom," Marie’s responsible for making sure our customers and internal teams have all of the tools and resources they need to succeed — even orange slices and gatorades to keep them energized. She has two children of her own and in her free time she’s an active volunteer for the San Carlos Educational Foundation and competes in obstacle course races like Tough Mudder.

As EVP of Revenue Cloud and Solutions, Meredith Schmidt is responsible for creating products that help small businesses take advantage of the Salesforce Platform to grow their businesses. Meredith was previously the Executive Vice President in charge of global revenue operations at Salesforce, managing the sales operations, compensation, and product and enablement teams, reporting directly to the CFO. Meredith lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, and enjoys cooking, travelling, and spending time with her fiance, young son, and King Charles Cavalier Spaniel.

Paul Drews serves as Managing Partner at Salesforce Ventures, the company’s global investment arm which helps enterprising founders build companies that reinvent the way the world works. Drews joined Salesforce Ventures in 2020 with a focus on application and infrastructure software investments across all stages. He has backed companies across the US and EMEA, and his investments span from seed to IPO-rounds — including Astronomer, Databricks, Lyra, Monte Carlo, Starburst, Vercel, Vivun and VNDLY (acquired by Workday). Currently, he is a board observer at Airbyte, Astronomer, and Vivun. Prior to Salesforce Ventures, Drews was a partner at Tenaya Capital, where he led investments in companies including Concord and Streamsets (acquired by Software AG). He formerly served as vice president at Battery Ventures, where he was actively involved with or on the board of the firm's investments in Collibra, Jfrog (NASDAQ: FROG), Opsgenie (acquired by Atlassian), Streamsets and others. Drews holds an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in economics from Duke University.

Paul Whitelam is GM and SVP of Field Service Management at Salesforce. He joined Salesforce as part of the acquisition of ClickSoftware, where he led the global marketing team, working closely with field service management leaders across a variety of industries. Paul has more than twenty years’ experience in enterprise software, with leadership roles in several areas fundamental to field service such as mobile (Nokia), location intelligence (HERE Technologies) and data management (Endeca).

Paula Goldman is Salesforce’s first-ever Chief Ethical and Humane Use Officer and an EVP of Product. In her role, she leads Salesforce in creating a framework to build and deploy trustworthy technology, with a particular focus on AI and data. Prior to Salesforce, Paula was VP and Head of the Tech and Society Solutions Lab as well as VP of Impact Investing at Omidyar Network, an investment firm founded by eBay Founder Pierre Omidyar. As an entrepreneur and investor, she lived and worked across multiple countries including India, Ghana, Kenya, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Bosnia, the UK and the US. Paula was a member of the US National AI Advisory Committee established by Congress to advise the President, where she chaired the Generative AI Working Group. She has been an advisor to multiple start-ups, and a fellow at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. Paula earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University, where she did a dissertation on how unorthodox ideas become mainstream.

Peter Schwartz is an internationally renowned futurist and business strategist, specializing in scenario planning and working with corporations, governments, and institutions to create alternative perspectives of the future and develop robust strategies for a changing and uncertain world. As Senior Vice President of Strategic Planning for Salesforce, he manages the organization’s ongoing strategic conversation. Prior to joining Salesforce, Peter was co-founder and chairman of Global Business Network. He is the author of several works. His first book, The Art of the Long View, is considered a seminal publication on scenario planning. Peter has also served as a script consultant on the films "The Minority Report," "Deep Impact," "Sneakers," and "War Games." He received a B.S. in aeronautical engineering and astronautics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York.

Relina Bulchandani is Executive Vice President, Real Estate & Workplace Services at Salesforce. In her role, Relina is responsible for Salesforce’s global real estate strategy, overseeing the company’s real estate portfolio and workplace design, as well as creating one-of-a-kind experiences for Salesforce’s employees, customers, partners, and the community. Relina is focused on reimagining how Salesforce spaces are used in the future of work — leading with collaboration, connection and community. In line with Salesforce’s core value of Sustainability, Relina is passionate about sustainable buildings and cities and is focused on the role of technology in sustainable design and operations. Prior to joining Salesforce, Relina led Real Estate and Workplace Services at Stripe, managing the company’s 1.5 million square foot real estate portfolio in 19 cities across 10 countries. Previously, she was Managing Director of Real Estate and Workplace Services at Google Cloud, and worked at Cisco as part of the Consulting Services Connected Real Estate practice and as the global lead for Connected Real Estate and Workplace in the Innovation & Strategy practice. Prior to Cisco, Relina was Senior Vice President of Strategic Projects at Forest City Enterprises, a publicly traded real estate developer. Prior to Forest City, Relina managed a division within client services for Realm Business Solutions, a real estate software company, and she was a senior member of the real estate consulting practice at Ernst & Young for more than five years. Relina recently completed the advanced real estate finance, development and sustainability program from the M.I.T Center for Real Estate and holds an M.S.E. in technology management from The Wharton School and the School of Engineering, University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. with a double major in economics and political science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Rob Seaman joined Slack in 2022 to spearhead the company’s enterprise product vision and strategy. In his previous role, he was Salesforce’s SVP of Product Management for Slack to lead the platform integration efforts prior to the acquisition. Rob has led Product at three early stage startups in the Machine Learning Ops and personalization spaces and started his career at Siebel and SAP.

Ruth Hickin is Vice President of Workforce Innovation at Salesforce, where she leads strategies for workforce adaptation in response to AI, skills development, and talent redeployment. She oversees the Career Connect internal mobility platform and drives transformation to meet future business needs. Before joining Salesforce, Ruth was with the World Economic Forum, where she led strategy and thought leadership on the future of technology and global tech governance, publishing influential reports. She has also held leadership positions at Virgin Unite, focusing on strategic partnerships and impact investments. Ruth holds an MBA in Design Strategy from California College of the Arts, an Executive Master of Arts (MA) in Global Leadership from the World Economic Forum, and a Master of Arts (Honours) in English Literature from the University of Glasgow.

Southard sets product strategy and leads the product management teams for Analytics products at Salesforce, including Tableau, CRM Analytics, Operational Reporting, and Data Cloud Reporting. Prior to Salesforce, Southard held executive product and marketing roles at enterprise software companies in the Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Data Science market, including Celonis, Domino Data Lab, Birst, Right 90, and Siebel Analytics.

Sunya Norman is the Senior Vice President of Impact at Salesforce, where she leads the company’s global strategy across sustainability, responsible business, and corporate philanthropy focused on climate solutions and education. A results-driven executive operating at the intersection of innovation and impact, Sunya ensures these efforts deliver measurable business value, driving growth, enhancing brand equity, and strengthening long-term resilience in a rapidly evolving landscape. Sunya is a trusted advisor known for turning vision into action and mobilizing stakeholders to drive meaningful impact. With deep expertise across sectors, she extends her leadership to a broad impact portfolio, including business strategy and operations, corporate sustainability, stakeholder engagement, impact reporting, and purpose-driven marketing. She has led high-impact initiatives across Fortune 50 companies and mission-driven organizations, translating complex challenges into actionable strategies. Sunya serves on the board of American Forests, reflecting her belief that access to nature strengthens communities and economies. She holds an MBA from Presidio Graduate School and a BA from Brown University. Sunya is energized by bringing people together, solving tough problems, and telling stories that inspire action.