Marc Benioff

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Mr. Marc Benioff is a Co-Founder and serves as Co-Chief Executive Officer & Chairman at Salesforce. Mr. Benioff is an Angel Investor. He served as an Advisor at Forward. He is the Founder of TIME Ventures. He serves as a Board Member at SilviaTerra and Artera. He serves as a Member of, the Breakthrough Energy Coalition at Breakthrough Energy. He serves as an Executive at The Marc R. Benioff Revocable Trust. He was the Owner of Efficient Capacity. He served as an Advisor at Brandcast. He co-founded Salesforce in 1999. He has been widely recognized for his visionary leadership and pioneering innovations. He is also a member of the World Economic Forum Board of Trustees. He also serves as a Board Member and Advisor at BirdEye. 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. He is also an Angel Investor. He served as an Advisor at DoubleRock. 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. A member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) board of trustees, he co-founded 1t.org - the global movement to conserve, restore, and grow 1 trillion trees - and the WEF Friends of Ocean Action. He also serves as the inaugural chair of WEF's Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in San Francisco. He received a B.S. in Business Administration in 1986 and an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 2014 from the University of Southern California.