Marc Benioff
Chair, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder · Salesforce
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Founder and CEO of Salesforce and a pioneer of cloud computing. Before founding Salesforce in 1999, he spent 13 years at Oracle, becoming one of its youngest vice presidents. He is also an investor, philanthropist and owner/co-chair of TIME.
Davos status
WEF identifies Benioff among leading North American business participants. He held a public Davos conversation with US AI and crypto adviser David Sacks on innovation, AI governance and economic opportunity.
Last verified: 11 September 2026
Sources & verification
- https://www.salesforce.com/news/marc-benioff/
- https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/01/north-america-at-davos-2026-wef-what-to-know/
- https://investor.salesforce.com/news/news-details/2026/Salesforce-and-Anthropic-Announce-Claudeforce-The-1-AI-Meets-the-1-AI-CRM/default.aspx
- https://investor.salesforce.com/news/news-details/2026/Salesforce-Delivers-Record-Fourth-Quarter-Fiscal-2026-Results/default.aspx
- Recorded research sources. Historical references do not confirm Davos 2027 attendance.
Record last verified: 11 September 2026. Organiser and self-reported pages are labelled as such and are not independent verification.