Suzanne is the Executive Director and co-founder of the Salesforce.com Foundation. In this role, Suzanne directs all Foundation activities and serves as the liaison to community, business and government organizations. Today the Foundation has offices in five countries around the world and 30 employees. Under her leadership, the Foundation has grown to serve as a successful model for a new breed of corporate social responsibility through its innovative 1/1/1 Model, where 1% of the company's time, product and equity are given back to the community. Through Suzanne's guidance, two books have been published by the Foundation's Chairman Marc Benioff: The Business of Changing the World (2006), in which 20 great leaders reveal how businesses can leverage the full scope of their resources to make a difference, and Compassionate Capitalism, the first-ever best-practices guide for corporate philanthropy that illustrates the success of the integrated model.

Suzanne is a recognized leader in the area of integrated corporate philanthropy. The Foundation's success under Suzanne's leadership has been recognized with a number of awards for excellence in philanthropy including: the 2002 and 2009 Points of Light Award for Excellence in Corporate Community Service; the 2003 U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Corporate Stewardship Award; a Codie Award for Excellence in Giving (2006) and the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy's Excellence in Corporate Philanthropy Award (2007).

Before founding the Salesforce.com Foundation, Suzanne was a principal at CSC Consulting Group in the Strategic Services Division. In this role, she worked with leaders in Fortune 500 companies to assist them in developing strategies for improved organizational performance and enhanced leadership capabilities. Prior to this, Suzanne was the program and marketing director for Partners for Democratic Change, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide skills for effective conflict management and alternative dispute resolution to NGOs and government officials in Central and Eastern Europe. In this role, she directed program and grants management activities and marketing events for the company.

Suzanne previously served on the Board of San Francisco School Volunteers and currently sits on a number of boards and advisory councils in the community, including the World Affairs Council's Global Philanthropy Forum, the Entrepreneurs Foundation, the Business Advisory Council to SFUSD and Goodwill Industries. She is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder with a BA in Communications and Economics.

Mark and his team are responsible for empowering NGO and higher education customers in their use of the Salesforce.com platform to achieve their core mission more effectively. These efforts aligned with the Power of Us Partner program are responsible for customer success and ensuring that each and every customer gets maximum value from our solutions.

Having worked in high tech for over twenty-five years with companies such as Polycom, NetApp, Cisco as well as multiple startups, Mark has built a track record of success in setting strategic direction, exceeding sales targets and building global partnerships. In joining the Foundation, Mark sees an incredibly unique opportunity to blend his passion for philanthropy and his professional skills.

Mark is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley with a BA in Economics and an MBA in Marketing from Santa Clara University.

The Enterprise Team.

Kurt works closely with all staff members to ensure that the foundation adheres to proper accounting, tax and operational principles and guidelines, both on a domestic and international level. Kurt also manages the company assets, the external audit process and the internal budget process. He is responsible for ensuring that the Foundation is in compliance with current tax and other regulations and reporting requirements.

Prior to joining the Foundation in August 2005, Kurt was the controller at Filoli Center, a National Trust for Historic Preservation property located in Woodside, CA. In his role as controller, Kurt worked with the board of directors and the executive director to help create sound investment and capital spending policies to help protect the long term financial sustainability of the Center.

Kurt has worked as a financial professional in the Bay Area since 1987 in a variety of roles in both the public and private sectors. Kurt and his wife are busy raising their two children, and he considers his most important role to be that of a devoted father. Kurt graduated from Westminster College with a BS in Finance.

The Finance and Operations Team.

As international director of the Salesforce.com Foundation, Isabel works in the UK, Ireland and other regional salesforce.com offices. She uses the power of the 1/1/1 model, and the passion of employees for the Foundation, to implement and integrate employee volunteering, technology and product donation projects throughout the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)  and Asia and Pacific (APAC) regions. Isabel ensures that the Salesforce.com Foundation vision and mission is cultivated internationally, and always reminds her co-workers to think globally!

Isabel brings international relations, research and communication skills to the Foundation; before joining Salesforce.com Foundation in 2002, she implemented Amnesty International (AI)'s international human rights campaigning for China, focusing on Tibet. She worked with AI’s membership, governments, the United Nations and the international media, NGOs, IGOs, businesses and other organizations. She also worked on projects in Hong Kong and with Tibetan refugee communities in India and Nepal. Prior to her work with Amnesty International, Isabel spent several years gaining invaluable administration and operations experience working with NGOs and the local government in the UK.

The International Team.

Tucker MacLean is the VP of customer success for nonprofits. Tucker has over 10 years experience working in CRM and on-demand applications and joined salesforce.com in 2000. He served numerous roles in the Sales and Services organizations before shifting his focus full time to the nonprofit sector in early 2006 as the Salesforce.com Foundation's first fellow. Since then, he has worked closely with the Salesforce.com Foundation to expand the license donations program and in early 2007, Tucker started a new discount program for organizations looking to grow beyond the standard donation where all of our license offerings are made available at an 80% discount off of the commercial rates. Tucker manages a global team that runs the nonprofit donation program, Power of Us Partner program,and supports all qualified nonprofit organizations and educational institutions using the Force.com platform.

Tucker resides in Philadelphia with his wife and two daughters and has a BA in Economics from Trinity College.

The Customer Success Team.

Julie joined the Salesforce.com Foundation in July of 2000 shortly after the launch of the company, salesforce.com. As head of global integrated philanthropy, Julie and her team are responsible for the global salesforce.com volunteer and grants program. They are engaged daily with enthusiastic employees who wish to be change makers, create social impact and volunteer with nonprofit organizations around the world. Julie manages marketing and communication for the Foundation, as well as promoting and sharing the Salesforce.com Foundation's 1/1/1/ model with interested companies.

In 2007, Julie spent the year in Singapore developing and expanding the Foundation programs in Asia and Australia, making a positive impact with the salesforce.com employees, nonprofits and communities in the region.

Leveraging her extensive education background Julie developed and delivers the Salesforce.com Foundation signature youth entrepreneur program, BizAcademy, which offers a hands-on program for at-risk youth to experience the business world, network with our employees and participate in rewarding internships.

Julie has a BA in Psychology from Emory University, and an M.Ed from Georgia State in Early Childhood Education. She spent six years working in elementary and middle schools in underserved communities in Atlanta. In 1999 she was named Apple Distinguished Educator, recognizing her exemplary and innovative style working with educational technologies.

The Global Integrated Philanthropy Team. 

Prior to joining the Salesforce.com Foundation, Steve worked for thirteen years in K12 education and technology. He was a high school administrator and a classroom teacher for nine years, beginning with the Peace Corps in Micronesia. Steve joined Salesforce.com Foundation in September 2000, initially working to help youth-serving organizations maintain effective IT for both administrative and programmatic purposes.  In an effort to create greater scale, Steve led the effort to build a robust product donation program. The Salesforce.com Foundation has donated the Force.com data management platform to over 6,400 organizations in over 55 countries.

Steve is a recognized expert in the areas of nonprofit operational efficacy, social impact measurement and the use of effective and relevant tools to make a better world.

Steve's responsibilities as the Director of Technology and Innovation center around leveraging the Salesforce.com platform specifically, and the cloud in general, to advance the Foundation's theory of change: "Our world, better equipped to address its challenges." To this end, he has led the development of the Nonprofit Starter Pack, which is a configuration of the Force.com platform specifically designed for the social sector. The Nonprofit Starter Pack is currently in use by over 2,500 nonprofits.

Additionally, Steve is active in the global social sector working to build and support ecosystems where both collaboration and social impact outcomes accompany revenue to define sustainability. An example of this work is the PULSE project for social investment that is built on the Force.com platform.

The Technology and Innovation Team.

Marc Benioff is chairman and CEO of salesforce.com. He founded the company in 1999 with a vision to create an on-demand information management service that would replace traditional enterprise software technology. Benioff is regarded as the leader of what he has termed "The End of Software," the now-proven belief that multi-tenant, cloud computing applications democratize information by delivering immediate benefits at reduced risks and costs.

Under Benioff's direction, salesforce.com has grown from a groundbreaking idea into a publicly traded company that is the market and technology leader in enterprise cloud computing. For its revolutionary approach, salesforce.com has been lauded as one of BusinessWeek’s Top 100 Most Innovative Companies, named No. 7 on The Wired 40, and selected for the past two years as a Top Ten Disrupter by Forbes. The product has won the Software & Information Industry Association Codie Award for Best CRM for the past six years, and the Codie Award for Best On-Demand Platform in 2007, as well as multiple “Editor’s Choice” designations from PC Magazine. Benioff has been widely recognized for pioneering innovation with honors such as the 2007 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, the SDForum Visionary Award, Alumni Entrepreneur of the Year by the University of Southern California (USC) Marshall School of Business, and being ranked No. 7 on the Top 100 Most Influential People in IT survey by eWEEK, and one of the Top 10 Greatest IT Chief Executives by VNU. He was appointed by President George W. Bush as the co-chairman of the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee and served from 2003-2005, overseeing the publishing of critical reports on health care information technology, cybersecurity and computational sciences.

Throughout his career, Benioff has also been committed to using information technology to produce positive social change. In 2000, he launched the Salesforce.com Foundation—now a multimillion-dollar global organization—establishing the “1/1/1 model,” whereby the company contributes one percent of profits, one percent of equity, and one percent of employee hours back to the communities it serves. Benioff authored The Business of Changing the World , in which 20 great leaders reveal how businesses can go beyond writing a check and leverage the full scope of their resources to make a difference. Compassionate Capitalism , also authored by Benioff, is the first-ever best-practices guide for corporate philanthropy that illustrates the success of the integrated model. Acknowledging his commitment to building partnerships between business and society to improve the state of the world, the members of 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. In 2008, for his thought and action leadership in corporate responsibility, CRO Magazine named Benioff CEO of the Year.

Prior to launching salesforce.com, Benioff, a quarter century veteran of the software industry, spent 13 years at Oracle Corporation from 1986–1999. In 1984, he worked as an assembly language programmer in Apple Computer’s Macintosh Division. He founded entertainment software company Liberty Software in 1979 when he was 15 years old. Benioff received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Southern California in 1986.

Robert Thurman is a scholar, author, former Tibetan Buddhist monk, Director of Tibet House in New York City, a close personal friend of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and father of five children including the Hollywood actress, Uma. He has lectured all over the world; his charisma and enthusiasm draw packed audiences.

Thurman currently holds the first endowed chair in the Tibetan-Buddhist field of study in the United States; he is the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University. He is a prolific translator and writer of both scholarly and popular works, including Tsong Khapa's Speech of Gold: Reason and Enlightenment in the Central Philosophy of Tibet, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Essential Tibetan Buddhism, and his most recent, Inner Revolution: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Real Happiness.

Thurman is not only a scholar, but also a champion of the preservation of Tibetan culture. In 1987, he and actor Richard Gere founded New York City's Tibet House, a nonprofit institution devoted to preserving the living culture of Tibet. Thurman writes, "What I have learned from these people [Tibetans] has forever changed my life, and I believe their culture contains an inner science particularly relevant to the difficult time in which we live. My desire is to share some of the profound hope for our future that they have shared with me."

Alan Hassenfeld took the helm at one of the world's leading toy companies in 1989, and was faced with managing and growing a company with annual net revenues of more than $1.3 billion. Today, Hasbro (NYSE:HAS) is a worldwide leader in children’s and family leisure time entertainment with $2.9 billion in revenues and an impressive blue-chip portfolio of familiar and popular brand names under one roof. Both internationally and in the U.S., its PLAYSKOOL, TONKA, SUPER SOAKER, MILTON BRADLEY, PARKER BROTHERS, TIGER and WIZARDS OF THE COAST brands and products provide the highest quality and most recognizable play experiences in the world.

Hassenfeld is active in many charitable and social causes both nationally and locally in Rhode Island. He is Chairman of the World Scholar Athlete Games and served as Chairman of Families First. He spearheaded the formation and launch of the RIght Now! Coalition, an effort created to foster ethics and campaign reform, as well as enlighten the Rhode Island state government to its constituent’s concerns. The coalition remains strong today and Hassenfeld has served as chairman since its inception in 1991.

In addition, he has been a leader in rallying corporate executives to work with elected officials to end childhood hunger, and has been very involved in issues impacting refugee resettlement in the state of Rhode Island by serving on the Board of Directors for Refugees International. Hassenfeld is on the advisory board of Big Brothers of Rhode Island and serves as a board member of the company's two philanthropic divisions, the Hasbro Charitable Trust and the Hasbro Children's Foundation. Hassenfeld is married and lives in Bristol, Rhode Island.

Rebecca Enonchong brought world-renowned Oracle expertise and a strong Consulting and Finance background to AppsTech, Inc. Her company is a leading global provider of enterprise application solutions. Powered by industry leaders like Oracle, SAP and PeopleSoft, AppsTech helps clients streamline their operations.

In addition to her professional achievements, Enonchong's accomplishments also include an extensive list of personal initiatives in the non-profit arena. Enonchong, as a native of Cameroon in Western Africa, devotes much of her life to promoting African interests, both in Africa and in the U.S. She is founder and Chairman of the Africa Technology Forum (www.africatechforum.org), a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting technology in Africa. She also serves on the UNIFEM (United Nations Development Fund for Women) Global Advisory Committee on the Digital Divide. She has also instilled into AppsTech, a focus of giving back to the community through initiatives such as Children First, Entrepreneurial Commitment, and Leveraging Economies Worldwide.

Recipient of Enterprise Africa's 2001 African Entrepreneurship Award, Enonchong was also named a Global Leader for Tomorrow (GLT) by the World Economic Forum of Davos, Switzerland, as part of the annual award that recognizes outstanding leaders around the world. Enonchong has been featured in several leading newspapers and magazines including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, MBE magazine and ComputerWorld and has appeared on both CNN and CNNfn. Enonchong holds both a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Economics from the Catholic University of America and is fluent in English and French.

Dave Moellenhoff, along with Marc Benioff, Frank Dominguez and Parker Harris, founded salesforce.com in 1999 with the goal of revolutionizing the concept of enterprise software. As CTO, Moellenhoff is responsible for the architecture and design of the salesforce.com systems, developing the vision of software as a utility.

He has been recognized as a Premier 100 IT Leader by Computerworld magazine, and a Top 10 Technology Innovator by InfoWorld magazine. Prior to founding salesforce.com, Moellenhoff was president of Left Coast Software, a San Francisco-based Java consulting firm he co-founded. Among the clients Moellenhoff worked with at Left Coast were industry leaders such as Excite@Home, NCI, and SBC. Prior to founding Left Coast, he was a senior developer at Metropolis Software (later acquired by Clarify), an early innovator in sales force automation software. Moellenhoff, a new member of the board of the Foundation, will serve a key role in the vision to integrate philanthropy and business as he represents the employees and daily operations of the company.

Moellenhoff graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 1994 with bachelor's degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, as well as an MBA.

Laura Scher is co-founder, chairperson and chief executive officer of
 Working Assets, a long distance, credit card, and wireless company dedicated to building a world that is more just, humane and environmentally sustainable.

Laura co-founded Working Assets in 1985 on the belief that building a business and building a better world are not mutually exclusive. “We are showing the world that you can create a successful business that is committed to social change,” says Laura. “It’s incredibly satisfying to know that a community of kindred spirits can have an enormous impact.”

Working Assets supports positive social change by donating a percentage of its revenue (from top-line sales, not bottom-line profits) to progressive nonprofit groups working for peace, human rights, equality, education, and the environment.

Under Laura’s leadership, the company has donated $35 million to progressive nonprofit groups such as Planned Parenthood, Amnesty International, Greenpeace and Children’s Defense Fund. Working Assets raised over $4 million in total donations in the year 2003 alone.

As CEO, Laura has helped Working Assets grow to more than $140 million in annual revenue. Additionally, Working Assets has appeared on Inc. Magazine’s list of fastest growing, privately held companies for five years in a row and is one of the largest private companies in San Francisco.

Working Assets and Laura have been featured in national media, including People Magazine, Rosie O’Donnell Show, Fortune Small Business, New York Times, USA Today and NBC’s Today show. The San Francisco League of Women Voters recently honored Laura as one of four women who could be President of the United States. In 1998, she was recognized by Working Mother Magazine as one of the 25 most influential working moms. She also earned the Northern California Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1997, which recognized her contribution to Working Assets’ profitability, growth, stability and creation of jobs. Laura is also a visiting lecturer at Stanford University, co-teaching “Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship” at the undergraduate level.

Laura graduated in the top five percent of her class at Harvard Business School. Before that, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Yale and studied international economics at the Institute for International Studies in Geneva.

Laura lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, daughter and son. She enjoys traveling internationally with her family. Laura volunteers at her daughter’s school and for an array of nonprofit organizations. She recently contributed to a children’s book titled 33 More Things Every Girl Should Know.

Warren Hellman, born in New York City in 1934, graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco, the University of California in Berkeley (1955), and Harvard Business School (1959).

For most of his business career, Mr. Hellman, his wife (Chris), and their four children resided on the East Coast. From 1962 to 1977, he was a Partner of Lehman Brothers in New York, where he served as head of Lehman's Investment Banking Division, President and Director of Lehman Brothers, Inc., and Chairman of Lehman Corporation (a closed-end investment company). From 1977 to 1989, he was General Partner of Hellman, Ferri Investment Associates in Boston, the name of which was changed to Matrix Partners in 1982, at which time he became a Limited Partner.

In October of 1981, Mr. Hellman and his family moved back to San Francisco.

In March of 1984, he and Tully Friedman formed Hellman & Friedman, a private equity firm that has raised capital of almost $5 billion.

Mr. Hellman is currently a Director of Levi Strauss & Co.; Osterweis Capital Management, Inc.; Sugar Bowl Corporation; and D.N. & E. Walter & Co.

Mr. Hellman's civic activities include: Chairman, Voice of Dance; former Chairman and present trustee of the The San Francisco Foundation; board member of the Committee on JOBS; member of the Advisory Board of the Walter A. Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley; trustee, UC Berkeley Foundation; board member of the S.F. Chamber of Commerce and Bay Area Council; and trustee emeritus of The Brookings Institution.