Marc Benioff is the chairman and CEO of salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), which he co-founded in 1999. Under Benioff’s direction, salesforce.com has grown from a groundbreaking idea into a publicly traded company that is the leader in enterprise cloud computing. Salesforce.com has received a Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award, been lauded as one of BusinessWeek’s Top 100 Most Innovative Companies, named No. 7 on The Wired 40, and selected for the past 2 years as a Top Ten Disrupter by Forbes. Benioff is the recipient of dozens of awards for pioneering innovation, including the 2007 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year. In 2000, Benioff launched the Salesforce.com Foundation—now a multimillion-dollar global organization. He has been twice honored with the Points of Light Foundation Award for Excellence in Corporate Community Service. The World Economic Forum named Benioff as one of its Young Global Leaders, and in 2007 the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy presented Benioff with the coveted Excellence in Corporate Philanthropy Award. He lives in San Francisco.