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Table of Contents
ITEM 4A. EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF THE REGISTRANT
The following sets forth certain information regarding our current executive officers (in alphabetical order):
Name Age Position
Marc Benioff 45 Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer
Parker Harris 43 Executive Vice President, Technology
George Hu 35 Executive Vice President, Marketing and Alliances
David Schellhase 46 Executive Vice President and General Counsel
Graham Smith 50 Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Jim Steele 54 Chief Customer Officer
Polly Sumner 55 Chief Adoption Officer
Frank van Veenendaal 50 Chief Sales Officer and President, Worldwide Sales
Marc Benioff co-founded salesforce.com in February 1999 and has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors since inception. He has served as
Chief Executive Officer since November 2001. From 1986 to 1999, Mr. Benioff was employed at Oracle Corporation where he held a number of positions in
sales, marketing and product development, lastly as a Senior Vice President. Mr. Benioff also serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the
salesforce.com/foundation. Mr. Benioff received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (B. S. B. A.) from the University of Southern California.
Parker Harris co-founded salesforce.com in February 1999 and served in senior technical positions since inception. Since December 2004, Mr. Harris
has served as our Executive Vice President, Technology. From October 1996 to February 1999, Mr. Harris was a Vice President at Left Coast Software, a
Java consulting firm he co-founded. Mr. Harris received a B.A. from Middlebury College.
George Hu has served as our Executive Vice President, Marketing and Alliances, since February 2009. Previously, Mr. Hu served as our Executive
Vice President, Marketing, Applications and Education from December 2007 to February 2009, our Chief Marketing Officer from October 2006 through
December 2007, our Senior Vice President and General Manager, Applications from January to October 2006 and our Vice President, Product Marketing
from October 2004 to January 2006. Mr. Hu has also served in various management positions in marketing since joining salesforce.com in March 2002.
Mr. Hu received an A.B. from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
David Schellhase has served as our Executive Vice President and General Counsel since March 2010. Previously, Mr. Schellhase served as our Senior
Vice President and General Counsel from December 2004 to March 2010 and as our Vice President and General Counsel from July 2002 to December 2004.
From December 2000 to June 2002, Mr. Schellhase was an independent legal consultant and authored a treatise entitled Corporate Law Department
Handbook. Previously, he served as General Counsel at Linuxcare, Inc., The Vantive Corporation and Premenos Technology Corp. Mr. Schellhase received a
B.A. from Columbia University and a J.D. from Cornell University.
Graham Smith has served as our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since March 2008. Prior to that, Mr. Smith served as our
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Designate from December 2007 to March 2008. Prior to salesforce.com, Mr. Smith was at Advent
Software Inc. and served as its Chief Financial Officer from January 2003 to December 2007. In addition to Advent Software, he served as Chief Financial
Officer of Vitria Technology and Nuance Communications, and also served at Oracle Corporation in various senior finance roles, lastly as Vice President of
Finance for worldwide operations. Mr. Smith holds a B.Sc. from Bristol University in England and qualified as a member of the Institute of chartered
accountants in England and Wales.
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