Marc Benioff

Marc Russell Benioff is an American internet entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is best known as the co-founder, chairman and CEO of the software company Salesforce, as well as being the owner of Time magazine since 2018.

• Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff owns about 2% of the cloud computing software firm he cofounded in 1999.
• Before Salesforce, he spent 13 years at database software giant Oracle as a protege of Larry Ellison.
• Salesforce was a pioneer in hosting its software online, rather than installing it in clients' computer systems.
• He's an angel investor in dozens of tech startups and a prolific philanthropist.
• Benioff and his wife Lynne have pledged $350 million to University of California, San Francisco, for its children's hospitals and research.