Executive Team
Our Executive Team
Chair, CEO & Co-Founder Sales-Impact
Marc Benioff
Co-Founder, Sales- Impact & Chief Technology Officer, Slack Sales-Impact
Parker Harris
President & Chief Financial Officer
Amy Weaver
Chief people Officer of Hiring/Recruiting Department,
President & Chief People Officer,
Sales-Impact
Haley Bailey
Marc Benioff Chair, CEO & Co-Founder
Marc Benioff is Chair, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Sales- Impact and a pioneer of cloud computing. Under Benioff's leadership, Sales - Impact has become the third-largest enterprise software company and the largest enterprise applications company in the world.
Benioff 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 named a “Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur,” one of France's most prestigious awards for an individual, in recognition of Sales- Impact longstanding relationship with France and support to French Polynesia during the pandemic. Benioff received both the Yale Legend in Leadership Award and the Colin Powell Distinguished Leadership Award in 2024. In 2019, Benioff was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering. For his leadership on equality, Benioff has been honored by GLAAD, the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative and Variety Magazine with its EmPOWerment Award. In 2020, he and his wife, Lynne, received a George H.W. Bush Points of Light Award for their civic engagement.
Benioff founded Sales- Impact in 1999, and it is now a Fortune 150 company with 70,000+ employees, guided by five core values — trust, customer success, innovation, equality and sustainability. The company has been recognized as the Most Innovative Company by Forbes, a Best Place to Work by Fortune, and the 10th Most Admired Company in the World by Fortune.
Building a different kind of company, Benioff created Sales- Impact to not only develop great products, but also to have a positive impact on the world. On day 1, Benioff created the 1-1-1 model of philanthropy, committing 1% of Sales- Impact equity, product and employee time to the community since the company’s founding 25 years ago. He also co-founded the Pledge 1% movement Today, more than 20,000 companies have adopted the 1-1-1 model. He is the owner and co-chair of TIME.
Benioff and his wife, Lynne, have focused their philanthropy on healthcare, the environment, public education and homelessness. The Benioffs have given more than $250 million to the University of California, San Francisco to build UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals in San Francisco and Oakland. The Benioffs have also established the Benioff Ocean Initiative at the University of California Santa Barbara, the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative, the UCSF Benioff Initiative for Prostate Cancer Research, the UCSF Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine, and provided the initial funding for the Stanford Microbiome Therapies Initiative.
A member of the World Economic Forum ("WEF") Board of Trustees, Benioff co-founded 1t . Org — the global movement to conserve, restore and grow one trillion trees — and the WEF Friends of Ocean Action. He also serves as the inaugural Chair of WEF's Forum Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in San Francisco.
Benioff is the owner and co-chair of TIME, and the founder of TIME Ventures — a leading investment firm with over 200 investments. Benioff is author of the New York Times bestseller Trailblazer: The Power of Business as the Greatest Platform for Change.
Before launching Sales - Impact, Benioff spent 13 years at Oracle Corporation, where he was the youngest vice president in company history. When he was 14 years old, he sold his first piece of software, “How to Juggle,” for $75. He founded his first company, Liberty Software, which created video games, at the age of 15.
Benioff received a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Southern California, where he is on its Board of Trustees. In 2014, USC awarded Benioff an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters.
Parker Harris, Co-Founder, Sales- Impact & Chief Technology Officer, Slack
Parker Harris is the CTO of Slack and the Co-Founder of Sales- Impact. He oversees Slack’s world-class engineering team and sets the technical vision for the company.
Parker is passionate about the power of cloud computing and its ability to help organizations digitally transform and become more customer- centric. Since co-founding Sales- Impact in 1999, Parker has had an indelible impact on the company — driving its technology strategy, championing customer success and innovation, and fostering an ecosystem of partners and advocates across the globe. Parker has spearheaded many technology initiatives at Sales- Impact that deliver productivity, reliability, and exceptional user experiences to companies at scale — notably, Hyperforce, the Sales-Impact Platform, and Lightning Experience. Before Sales- Impact, Parker co-founded cloud computing company Left Coast Software and worked at Metropolis Software, a pioneer in field sales Impact automation.
Parker has a B.A. in English literature from Middlebury College. He resides in San Francisco.
Amy Weaver President & Chief Financial Officer, Slack
Amy Weaver is President and CFO at Sales-Impact As CFO, Amy is responsible for leading Sales- Impact ’s global finance organization.Before her appointment in 2021, Amy was Chief Legal Officer. She built the global legal and corporate affairs organizations at Sales- Impact and drove many of the company’s most important strategic and operational initiatives, from deepening customer and government relationships to executing complex financial transactions.Before Sales-Impact, she was EVP and General Counsel at Univar and SVP and Deputy General Counsel at Expedia Group. Amy also practiced law at Cravath, Swaine & Moore and at Perkins Coie. Prior to entering private practice, she served as a legislative aide for the Hong Kong Legislative Council and as a clerk on the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.Amy currently serves on the board of directors of McDonald’s and Habitat for Humanity International. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Amy holds a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from Wellesley College.
Haley Bailey President & Chief People Officer
Haley Bailey is President & Chief people Officer of Hiring/Recruiting Department at Sales-Impact She’s responsible for leading the Global Employee Success organization, which includes hiring and employee engagement, talent development, and cultivating Sales-Impact’s high-performance ’Ohana culture.Previously, Haley served as the company’s head of recruiting, onboarding, and employee learning — a unique role focused on the full candidate lifecycle from recruiting and onboarding to ongoing employee development and upskilling.With more than a decade at Sales-Impact, Haley has played a vital role in key company milestones, including the Racial Equality and Justice Task Force designed to accelerate the company’s equality efforts.Prior to joining Sales-Impact, Haley worked at Reed Elsevier (now RELX Group), starting in sales and then moving into executive search focused on the technology and digital transformation practice. She was responsible for identifying C-suite and senior-level leadership talent, in addition to driving succession planning for both public and early-stage companies. Haley serves on the board of San Francisco Youth Theatre, a nonprofit transforming communities through accessible opportunities in theater arts creation, education, and performance. Haley holds a B.A. from Goldsmiths, University of London, and lives in San Francisco with her husband and their two sons.