Marc Benioff, Founder and CEO of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software giant Salesforce. Taken in 2019.
According to a direct interview with Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, he has been at the top of management for more than 20 years since the company was founded, and he has a successor in mind. It turns out that the figure lists multiple people who are seen as candidates.
“I have never neglected succession planning. I have identified not just one successor, but several as the next top management candidate, and have informed the board of directors of who they are. rice field”
Benioff’s succession plan has been clouded, at least from the outside, with Co-CEO Brett Taylor, who was seen as the most likely successor candidate, announcing his resignation just a year after taking office.
Taylor “out of the blue” demanded that he end his co-CEO role with Benioff and transition to a new one with himself as the sole CEO, which Benioff rejected, according to a former executive with knowledge of the matter. As a result, he announced his shock resignation at the end of November 2022.
Insider recently conducted two lengthy interviews with Benioff, but he didn’t directly mention the events, and he candidly said he was surprised and disappointed that no one expected Taylor’s resignation. While saying, “The past is the past, it’s over.”
An internal organizational chart of Salesforce, which Insider has independently verified, lists the names of Benioff’s direct executives, including the person Benioff has identified as his next potential successor. it is conceivable that.
The reason for “included” is the aforementioned interview.
At the time of the interview, Benioff said that Insider had previouslyarticleSaid he has a successor candidate among the key executives featured in.
This includes Chief Product Officer (CPO) David Schmeier, Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Sarah Franklin, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Amy Weaver, and most recently Chief Operating Officer (COO). ), Brian Milham and others.
In an interview, Benioff praised the current management team as follows:
“Salesforce is incredibly well-staffed. I’ve been surrounded by executives and long-term veterans, and they’re all incredible people. Probably the best management in the software industry. You can call it a team.
I strongly believe in them. For our management team, which has weathered many downturns in the past, this is not the first battle. I feel lucky to be able to work with such a great team.”
Recently, a familiar face was added to that talented executive team.George Fu, who served as COO of Salesforce until 2014 and then assumed the position of COO of cloud communications giant Twilio before retiring in January 2022.That person.
According to his LinkedIn profile, he joined Salesforce after completing a Stanford MBA from Harvard University. Mr. Fu, who has climbed the career ladder from product manager to COO for about 10 years, has just been appointed as an advisor at Benioff’s request.
It is unclear at this time what role he will play in the future, or if he is the candidate for succession.
In any case,At Salesforce, two co-CEOs retired in just a few years after 2020 and left the company..
One of them is Mr. Brett Taylor, who touched on the retirement play at the beginning, and the other is Mr. Keith Block. After a long career as an Oracle executive, he became the COO of Salesforce. He was promoted to co-CEO in 2018, but continued to be unfavorably treated in terms of compensation and how the management team was run.
Despite that “failure” history, Benioff still appreciates the co-CEO management model.
“The co-CEO model worked. I think it’s a great management model.”
Below is a list of executives who report directly to CEO Benioff. It should be noted that the list also includes other than “executives previously covered by Insider” who are assumed to be potential successors.
- Alex Dayon: Advisory Board Chairman
- Amy Weaver: President and Chief Financial Officer
- Brent Hider: President and Chief Human Resources Officer
- Brian Milham: President and Chief Operating Officer
- David Schumaier: President and Chief Product Officer
- Ebony Beckwith: Chief Business Officer and Assistant CEO (Benioff)
- Juan Perez: Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer
- Parker Harris: Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer (Director)
- Sarah Franklin: President and Chief Marketing Officer
- Srinivas Tarapragada: President and Chief Engineering Officer
- Suzanne Dibianca: Executive Vice President and Chief Impact Officer
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(Translation and editing: Chikara Kawamura)
Source: BusinessInsider
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