Parker Harris co-founded Salesforce in 1999 and has served on the company's Board of Directors since 2018. In his career at Salesforce he has run engineering, product management, infrastructure, security, information technology and most recently served as the head of engineering for the Slack business unit. He currently serves as an advisor to the CEO.

Before Salesforce, Parker co-founded cloud computing company Left Coast Software and worked at Metropolis Software, a pioneer in field sales force automation.

Parker has a B.A. in English literature from Middlebury College and has served on their board since 2016. He resides in San Francisco.