Benioff

Benioff is a surname. The most notable person with this name is Marc Benioff (born 1964), an American entrepreneur and philanthropist who co-founded Salesforce.com and has served as its chairman and chief executive officer since the company’s inception in 1999. Salesforce is a cloud-based software company known for its customer relationship management CRM platform and for helping popularize software-as-a-service for enterprise applications.

Under Benioff’s leadership, Salesforce has expanded its product lineup to include marketing, analytics, commerce, and platform services, and the company has grown through a series of acquisitions. Salesforce is headquartered in San Francisco and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker CRM. Benioff is also noted for his philanthropic and public-policy activities. Salesforce.org directs the company’s charitable initiatives, and the company operates the 1-1-1 model, which pledges one percent of equity, one percent of product, and one percent of employee time to communities worldwide.

While primarily associated with Salesforce, the surname Benioff can refer to other individuals in different contexts; however, Marc Benioff remains the most prominent bearer in public records.