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Avner Ziv and the art of making money understood
He studied Mandarin in Kunming, put software in place before hiring his first employee, and built Zota around a single application. Avner Ziv keeps returning to the same problem: getting people and systems to understand one another.
Srini Tallapragada and the work after the demo
He learned to program with punch cards, then helped build Salesforce through successive waves of cloud, data and AI. His recurring question is what happens when the demonstration ends and the customer has to live with the software.
Adam Wegel
Adam Wegel is the Chief Executive Officer of Ease.io, the Irvine-based manufacturing audit and plant-floor platform used by Dana, Tenneco, Eaton and other manufacturers in 50+ countries. Appointed in October 2025, he succeeded Eric Stoop after more than a decade of Stoop's leadership. Wegel previously ran AI Application Development product at Salesforce, where his teams shipped the Agentforce Chat Client, and earlier worked as a manufacturing engineer at Delphi Automotive.
Armita Peymandoust
Armita Peymandoust is Senior Vice President of Engineering, AI Cloud at Salesforce, where she leads development of Einstein AI and Agentforce - Salesforce's next-generation autonomous AI agent platform. A Stanford-trained electrical engineer with a PhD, she built her career from Intel chip design through Yahoo's ad algorithms to becoming one of the most influential voices in enterprise AI. A self-described mom, optimist, and immigrant, she champions the idea that AI should be accessible to everyone - not just engineers.
Kimen Warner
Kimen Warner is SVP of Product Management for Personalization and Marketing Intelligence at Salesforce, where she leads the AI-powered unification of Marketing Cloud's fragmented ecosystem into a coherent platform. A veteran of nearly two decades in personalization and optimization technology, she rode one product from Offermatica through Omniture to Adobe — spending over a decade building Adobe Target into a leading A/B testing and personalization platform — before joining Drift as VP of Product and then Salesforce. A Stanford-educated product designer and former varsity fencer, she is now one of the most prominent voices shaping how enterprise marketers adopt AI agents and autonomous campaign optimization.
Cameron Christoffers
Cameron Christoffers is VP of Strategy, Programs & Sales Development at Salesforce's Next Gen Platform Org - the team behind Agentforce, Data Cloud, MuleSoft, and Heroku. A Stanford-trained engineer and Division I volleyball player turned tech executive, Cameron carved an unlikely path from Raytheon labs to TechCrunch intern desks to leading sales strategy at one of the world's largest enterprise software companies. He bridges the technical and the commercial with rare fluency, having built his career at the intersection of platform thinking and revenue execution.
Gary Lerhaupt
Gary Lerhaupt is VP of Product Architecture at Salesforce leading Agent Interoperability and Orchestration for Agentforce. He co-founded Clockwise, the AI calendar company used by Uber, Netflix, and Atlassian, and was a founding engineer at RelateIQ (acquired by Salesforce for ~$390M). Earlier in his career he created DKMS, the Linux kernel module framework still baked into most Linux distributions today. He holds a BS from Ohio State and an MS in Computer Science from Stanford.
Jason Ding
Jason Ding is the Senior Vice President of Engineering at Salesforce, leading the engineering teams behind Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Revenue Cloud — the backbone of the world's largest CRM platform. A PhD computer scientist turned performance engineering pioneer, he set nine SPEC benchmark world records at Cisco, helped drive UCS to $1 billion in revenue in under three years, and is now steering Salesforce's engineering toward a future of AI agents and billion-transaction-per-day scale. With 14+ years at Salesforce and deep roots in academia and chip-level performance work at Intel, Ding brings a rare combination of theoretical rigor and enterprise execution.
Nancy Xu
Nancy Xu is VP of Agentforce at Salesforce, the architect behind one of enterprise AI's most-watched platforms. A Stanford CS PhD and MBA dual-degree holder, she founded Moonhub in 2022 — the world's first AI recruiter — raised $10M+, landed on TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI in 2023, and then joined Salesforce in 2025 when the company brought her entire team aboard. She also runs Xu Ventures, an early-stage AI-focused fund, and co-founded The Gradient, a respected AI research publication. A first-generation immigrant, Knight-Hennessy Scholar, and relentless builder, Xu is now leading Salesforce's charge to make autonomous AI agents accessible to every business user on the planet.
Prasad Raje
Prasad Raje is a serial founder turned enterprise product executive who built and sold two SaaS startups before rising to C-suite roles at RingCentral, Outreach, and Udemy - and is now SVP Product Management at Salesforce, where he works at the center of the GenAI/Agentforce revolution. With a Ph.D. from Stanford, 9 patents, and a career arc spanning three decades of cloud software, he is one of the rare operators who has been a founder, a CEO, and a CPO before landing at the world's leading CRM company.
Marc Benioff
Marc Benioff is the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Salesforce, the company that invented cloud-based CRM and pioneered the SaaS model. He built Salesforce from a San Francisco apartment in 1999 into the world's largest enterprise applications company, while simultaneously pioneering the 1-1-1 corporate philanthropy model that has been adopted by thousands of companies globally. Owner of Time magazine since 2018 and a vocal advocate for stakeholder capitalism, Benioff sits at the intersection of tech innovation, spiritual practice, and social activism — swimming with dolphins in Hawaii one day, staging fake protests outside competitor conferences the next.
Sireesh Bodireddygari
Sireesh Bodireddygari is Executive Vice President of Software Engineering at Salesforce, where he leads a global team of 1,000+ engineers building Tableau and CRM Analytics products. Promoted to EVP in March 2025 after nearly a decade of rising through Salesforce's analytics engineering ranks, he is the engineering force behind Tableau Next — an AI-native, full-stack agentic analytics platform unveiled at Tableau Conference 2025. A 25-year software veteran who started at L&T Infotech and cut his teeth at Yahoo! and DIRECTV before joining Salesforce as Director of Wave Analytics, he has become one of the most consequential engineering leaders in enterprise data and AI.