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The appointment was effective as of Dec. 5, 2014, and increases the size of the Salesforce Board of Directors to 11 members.<br \/> <br \/> \u201cWe are delighted that Susan has joined our Board of Directors,\u201d said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, Salesforce. \u201cSusan is an extraordinary executive who has been instrumental in helping to build the world&#8217;s largest consumer cloud company, where scale, reliability and security are of critical importance. Her experience will make her an outstanding addition to our board.&quot;<br \/> <br \/> \u201cSalesforce has revolutionized enterprise software and has an amazing culture of innovation,\u201d said Susan Wojcicki. \u201cI\u2019m very excited to be joining the Salesforce Board of Directors.\u201d <br \/> <br \/> With this appointment, the Salesforce Board of Directors now consists of Marc Benioff, Salesforce chairman and CEO; Keith Block, Salesforce vice chairman and president; Craig Conway, former CEO of PeopleSoft; Alan Hassenfeld, former chairman and CEO of Hasbro; General Colin Powell, retired four star general in the U.S. Army and former U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. National Security Advisor and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Sanford Robertson, principal of Francisco Partners; John Roos, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan; Lawrence Tomlinson, former senior vice president and treasurer of Hewlett-Packard; Robin Washington, CFO of Gilead Sciences; Maynard Webb, chairman of Yahoo! Inc.; and Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube.<br \/> <br \/> Background on Susan Wojcicki<br \/> <br \/> \u2022 Wojcicki is currently CEO of YouTube, the world\u2019s most popular digital video platform, which was acquired by Google in 2006.<br \/> \u2022 Prior to joining YouTube in February 2014, Wojcicki was senior vice president of Advertising &amp; Commerce at Google, where she oversaw the design and engineering of AdWords, AdSense, DoubleClick, and Google Analytics.<br \/> \u2022 Wojcicki joined Google in 1999. In 2002, she began working on Google\u2019s advertising products and over the next 12 years she led teams that helped define the vision and direction of Google\u2019s monetization platforms.<br \/> \u2022 Wojcicki graduated with honors from Harvard University, holds a master&#8217;s in Economics from University of California, Santa Cruz, and an MBA from UCLA.<br \/> <br \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. \u2013 Dec. 8, 2014 \u2013 Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), the Customer Success Platform and world\u2019s #1 CRM company, announced today the appointme<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"sf_subhead":"SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. \u2013 Dec. 8, 2014 \u2013 Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), the Customer Success Platform and world\u2019s #1 CRM company, announced today the appointme","sf_i18n_disclaimer":false,"alternateThumbnailId":0,"sf_product_cta_id":0,"footnotes":""},"sf_content_type":[1755,1776],"sf_theme":[1914],"sf_topic":[1752,1733],"sf_product":[],"sf_industry":[],"sf_role":[],"sf_multimedia_asset":[2056],"sf_location":[1724],"sf_collection":[],"sf_visibility":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-20760","sf_press_release","type-sf_press_release","status-publish","hentry","sf_content_type-press-releases","sf_content_type-press-releases-corporate","sf_theme-business-as-a-platform-for-change","sf_topic-awards-and-recognition","sf_topic-stakeholder-capitalism","sf_multimedia_asset-salesforce-executives","sf_location-amer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - 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