Marc Benioff

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Mr. Marc Benioff is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer & Chairman at Salesforce. Mr. Benioff is the Founder of TIME Ventures. He is an Angel Investor. He is a Co-Founder of Ellipsis Health. He serves as Board Member at SilviaTerra, Artera and Birdeye. He serves as Member of the Breakthrough Energy Coalition at Breakthrough Energy. He serves as Executive at The Marc R. Benioff Revocable Trust. He owned Efficient Capacity. He served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at GroupSwim, InStranet, Sitemasher and Dimdim. He served as Board Member at National Carrier Exchange. He served as Advisor at Forward, Brandcast, Birdeye and DoubleRock. He co-founded Salesforce in 1999. He has been widely recognised for his visionary leadership and pioneering innovations. He is also a member of the World Economic Forum Board of Trustees. He created the 1-1-1 model of philanthropy, which leverages the resources of Salesforce to improve communities around the world. Before launching Salesforce, he spent 13 years at Oracle Corporation. He founded his first company, Liberty Software, which created video games, at the age of 15. He also worked as an assembly language programmer in Apple Computer's Macintosh Division. He is the author of three books, including the national bestseller, Behind the Cloud. Building a different kind of company, he created Salesforce to not only develop great products but also to have a positive impact on the world. On day one, he created the 1-1-1 model of philanthropy, which leverages the resources of Salesforce to improve communities around the world. Today, more than 12,000 companies have adopted the 1-1-1 model through the Pledge 1% movement, and his wife, Lynne, has focused their philanthropy on healthcare, the environment, public education, and homelessness. He has given more than $250 million to the University of California, San Francisco, to build UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals in San Francisco and Oakland. The Benioffs have also established the Benioff Ocean Initiative at the University of California, Santa Barbara, the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative, the UCSF Benioff Initiative for Prostate Cancer Research, and the UCSF Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine, and they have provided the initial funding for the Stanford Microbiome Therapies Initiative. He also serves as the inaugural chair of WEF's Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in San Francisco. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Honorary from the University of Southern California.