Marc Benioff is Chair, CEO, and Co-Founder of Salesforce, a pioneer of cloud computing who built the world's largest enterprise applications company. Under his leadership, Salesforce has become the third-largest enterprise software company and the largest enterprise applications company in the world.

Marc earned a B.S. in Business Administration from USC in 1986 and spent 13 years at Oracle Corporation, where he became the youngest vice president in company history. Before launching Salesforce, Benioff spent 13 years at Oracle Corporation, where he was the youngest vice president in company history. At age 15, he founded Liberty Software, a video game company, and sold his first software at age 14 for $75.

Marc was named Innovator of the Decade by Forbes and is recognized as one of the World's 25 Greatest Leaders by Fortune, one of the 10 Best-Performing CEOs by Harvard Business Review, as the CNN Business CEO of 2020 and Chief Executive Magazine's 2022 CEO of the Year. He was appointed a Knight of the Legion of Honour by the French government in 2022.

Salesforce was founded on March 8, 1999, by former Oracle executive Marc Benioff, together with Parker Harris, Dave Moellenhoff, and Frank Dominguez as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company. On day 1, Benioff created the 1-1-1 model of philanthropy, committing 1% of Salesforce's equity, product and employee time to the community since the company's founding 25 years ago. Marc also owns TIME magazine and founded TIME Ventures, a venture capital firm with over 200 investments.

Salesforce achieved an annual revenue of $37.9 billion for fiscal year 2025. With a global customer base exceeding 150,000, Salesforce stands as the leading service provider in both the CRM and SaaS markets. The company pioneered the SaaS model and revolutionized how businesses deliver software, with over 20,000 companies adopting the 1-1-1 philanthropy model.