MARC BENIOFF is Founder, Chairman, and co-CEO of Salesforce, the company credited with revolutionizing the world of software. Benioff was named Innovator of the Decade by Forbes, ranked #3 on Fortune's 2017 Businessperson of the Year list, recognized as one of the World's 25 Greatest Leaders by Fortune and 15 Best-Performing CEOs by Harvard Business Review, and honored for his leadership on gender equality. He and his wife, Lynne, are philanthropists who have given over $250 million to build UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals in San Francisco and Oakland. Salesforce is the #1 provider of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software globally. It has been named in the top 3 of the World's Most Innovative Companies eight years in a row by Forbes Magazine, and has been recognized as the #1 Best Place to Work by Fortune. It is renowned for it's 1-1-1 model of corporate philanthropy, a program that has generated more than $200 million in grants and 3 million hours of Salesforce employee volunteer time. Thousands of other companies have adopted the 1-1-1 model through the Pledge 1% movement.
