Marc Benioff is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on September 25, 1964 in San Francisco, California, United States. A maverick businessman, he is the founder, CEO and Chariman for the cloud computing company salesforce.com. His innovative approach has won him the Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award.
U.S. President He was named as the co-chairman of the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee by U.S. President George W. Bush. named him co-chairman for the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee.
Benioff was raised in a Jewish family long established in the San Francisco Bay Area. He graduated from Burlingame High School in 1982. Benioff received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Southern California in 1986, where he was a member of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
Benioff founded Salesforce in March 1999 in a rented San Francisco apartment and defined its mission in a marketing statement as “The End of Software.” He has long evangelized software as a service as the model that would replace traditional enterprise software. He is the creator of the term “platform as a service” and has extended Salesforce’s reach by allowing customers to build their own applications on the company’s architecture or in the Salesforce cloud.
He is married to Lynne Krilich.
