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.

Brenda was born and raised in Monterrey, Mexico, in a bicultural family, and later moved to the US for school pursuing a BA in Economics and MBA. She started her Marketing career within Brand and Research at BAT, crafting marketing plans to increase awareness and drive share growth. She continued her professional journey at Microsoft, where she spent the last 17 years in various businesses. Her first role was in ERP and CRM Product Marketing as that business unit was formed launching Microsoft Dynamics. Over the next few years she held various Marketing leadership roles across Commercial and Consumer groups, including SQL Server, Windows and Devices and Global Advertising and Brand. Her most recent role at Microsoft was leading the Product Marketing and GTM teams for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform with a craft for differentiated messaging, positioning and go to market strategies, partnering closely with Sales, Engineering and Customer Success. Brenda was also co-chair for Diversity and Inclusion in the Cloud Marketing organization, as this is one of her passion areas. Outside of work, Brenda loves to travel and spend time with her husband and two daughters, staying active in the beautiful Pacific Northwest year-round through water sports, hiking and skiing.

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.

Denise Dresser is the CEO of Slack. For over 20 years, Denise has spearheaded business transformations within many of the world’s largest and most innovative companies. At Slack and as a part of Salesforce, Denise leads the team of Slack technologists, product innovators, marketers, communicators, and customer success professionals who are grounded in Slack’s mission to make people’s working lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive. Denise previously served as President of Accelerated Industries Sales at Salesforce, leading the distribution and go-to-market strategy for some of Salesforce’s most strategic accounts and for the company’s industry-leading cloud solutions. Prior to Salesforce, she was a sales leader at Oracle. Denise graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is a passionate mentor to future women leaders and top talent, and the executive sponsor for ALSForce, a Salesforce equality group focused on raising awareness about ALS. Denise is based in San Francisco and is the mom of two amazing sons.

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.

As Executive Vice President of Global Government Affairs, Eric Loeb is responsible for leading Salesforce’s government relations, public policy, and public affairs efforts. The global team he supports is the face of Salesforce with policymakers, policy influencers, diplomats, and civil society. Salesforce is a cloud computing company covering customer relationship management and other enterprise-focused software to businesses, governments and other organizations around the world. Salesforce enables companies of every size and industry to take advantage of powerful technologies—cloud, mobile, social, blockchain, voice, and artificial intelligence—to connect in a whole new way. Joining Salesforce in 2018, Eric brings significant experience in the geopolitical arena. His roles as AT&T’s International External Affairs SVP, Global Regulatory Counsel for Concert Communications plc, and U.S. Regulatory Counsel for British Telecommunications plc have fostered extensive experience with the policies and politics of governments across the globe. Eric serves as a leader on Salesforce’s Racial Equality & Justice Task Force as the chair of the Policy Pillar, in addition to being the executive sponsor of WINDforce, an employee equality group representing a Worldwide Indigenous Network of Diversity. In the community, Eric is Chair of the Board, the United States Council of International Business, and an advisory board member of the SEED School of Maryland, and the Asia Society - Northern California Chapter. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. A graduate with honors of Georgetown University Law Center and Bowdoin College, Eric is an avid cyclist and outdoors enthusiast. He and his family share their time between San Francisco, California and Baltimore, Maryland.

Dr. Paruk has recently joined Salesforce as Chief Health Officer & SVP Industry Advisory for HLS. She brings her experience as a practicing physician, chief medical officer, and clinical technology strategy consultant to Salesforce’s HLS. Prior to her joining Salesforce, Fatima came from McKinsey Co, where she led McKinsey’s Clinical Center of Excellence. She has also served as Chief Medical Information Officer for Microsoft US Health & Life Sciences, and Chief Medical Officer of Analytics and Consumer Wellness at Allscripts, where she provided medical leadership to a world-class team of data scientists. Dr. Paruk successfully demonstrated the power of big data in improving health outcomes. Her team facilitated early identification of chronic diseases, successfully quantified impacts of social determinants of health, and worked to deliver such insights to the point of care to clinicians within their workflows, and to consumers.

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 Click, Datorama, Demandware, ExactTarget, MuleSoft, Quip, Spiff, SteelBrick, Slack, Tableau and Vlocity. Since 2009, Salesforce Ventures has invested over $5 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. There have been 34 IPOs and 170+ 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.

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, Talent Growth and Development at Salesforce where she leads the company’s talent life cycle strategy from onboarding to alumni. In her role, Lori helps Salesforce’s global workforce shape their careers, with a focus on succession planning, learning and development, skill building, and internal careers for Salesforce’s global employees. She is passionate about helping individuals with diverse perspectives and backgrounds take on new challenges and chart new career paths. Previously, Lori served as Salesforce's Chief Equality Officer, where she helped increase global representation and create a more inclusive culture through equity-focused processes and approaches. Prior to her time as Chief Equality Officer, she served as the head of Global Employee Relations and Equality — a role uniquely designed as a way to accelerate and integrate people and equality initiatives at Salesforce, guided by employees. 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.

Nasi Jazayeri - EVP & General Manager, Public Sector, Industries Cloud

Patrick Stokes is EVP of Product & Industries Marketing at Salesforce. Patrick joined Salesforce in 2012 through the acquisition of Buddy Media where he served as CPO and quickly partnered with the Radian6 team to deliver Social Studio, the first product in what eventually became Salesforce Marketing Cloud. After numerous expanding leadership roles in Marketing Cloud, Patrick spearheaded the Customer 360 project and Salesforce’s multi-cloud integration strategy. Customer 360 is now a primary differentiator of the Salesforce platform and has transformed the way customers deploy Salesforce products and achieve a single view of their customer. Throughout his career, he has worked in product leadership roles in both start-ups and industry incumbents. Patrick studied Computer Science and Information Technology at Marist College, and is based in New York.

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. In her role, she leads Salesforce in creating a framework to build and deploy ethical technology that optimizes social benefit. Prior to Salesforce, Paula served as Vice President, Global Lead, Tech and Society Solutions Lab, at Omidyar Network, a social impact investment firm established by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. Paula also served as the global lead for impact investing, where she created and led Omidyar Network’s global efforts to build the impact investing movement through its investment portfolio, industry partnerships, and thought leadership. Paula has extensive entrepreneurial experience managing frontier market businesses, ranging from managing an affordable private school in rural India to a micro-enterprise syndicate in post-war Bosnia. Paula earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University, She holds a Master in Public Affairs from Princeton and a B.A. with highest honors from UC Berkeley

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 & Transformation 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.

Ryan Aytay is Tableau’s Chief Executive Officer. With over 25 years of technology industry experience, Ryan has a proven track record of leading with trust, agility, and execution to consistently drive results through strategic customer relationships, trusted partnerships and reliable business operations. Prior to taking this role, Ryan was Salesforce’s Chief Business Officer, partnering with with Marc Benioff to set, manage and deliver critical business priorities — such as our company’s COVID-19 pandemic response in service of our customers and our communities in need. Ryan also established and owns Salesforce’s strategic partnerships with companies like Amazon, Google, Alibaba, Apple, and IBM — many of which are now our largest customers. Ryan has an MBA from the University of Minnesota - Carlson School of Management and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration and Finance from Augsburg University.

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.

Steve Corfield leads the growth and business strategy for Salesforce’s Global Alliances, Channels & Emerging Products organizations. He also drives customer success and sales through Salesforce’s world-class partner ecosystem. Steve has been with Salesforce for eight years working at the intersection of technology innovation and global impact in various roles. He also held senior leadership positions as the General Manager of Salesforce UK/Ireland and the CRO of Commerce Cloud. Steve has 20+ years of experience in high tech, cloud computing, software, and services. Prior to Salesforce, Steve held senior leadership positions at Microsoft and Oracle. Steve holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Science from Brunel University in London. He serves as a Board Member and Trustee of Corvus Learning Trust, advising on the future of education for children. He lives outside of London with his wife and children.

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. 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.