Anne Haack, Senior Manager, Customer Marketing Programs

Salesforce.com, New York

Since the summer of 2004, Anne Haack has spent one mid-afternoon through early evening every month serving meals at the New York City Rescue Mission, America’s first rescue mission. For her dedication and consistency, Anne has been recognized as salesforce.com’s Volunteer of the Year, East.

“When I first moved to New York,” Anne recalled, “I wanted to become tangibly anchored in city life through something that extended beyond the usual hard day’s work and fun night out. The NYC Rescue Mission aims to restore people’s broken spirits through basic principles of love and respect. They welcomed my interest in volunteering on a consistent monthly basis but on a variable day.” Each month, Anne spends four hours working in the kitchen to help serve 150 – 250 meals to New Yorkers who need a helping hand. The Mission believes that providing a nutritious and warm meal to someone who is hungry and hurting often opens the door to a discussion of deeper needs.

For her efforts, Salesforce Foundation has donated $500 in Anne’s name to the New York City Rescue Mission

Chris Sommers, Sales Engineer - Strategic Accounts

Saleseforce.com, San Francisco

Chris Sommers was picked as one of the volunteers of the year for the West Coast for his sheer ability to be everywhere and be involved with everything! The bulk of his volunteering comes in helping nonprofits implement salesforce.com into their business practices. Chris has done an amazing job helping both the Princess Project and Project Homeless Connect make full use of the donation of salesforce.com. This work has allowed both organizations to use salesforce.com to streamline business practices which is crucial to small organizations. Chris is also very active in supporting Foundation sponsored events. Chris was crucial in the development and delivery of BizAcademy, a week long entrepreneurial program for high school students. He was instrumental as a project manager lead in last years Dreamforce Community Event. He is also a regular participant in local Habitat for Humanity builds and has just started working with them to streamline their business practices. As if that wasn’t enough, Chris is always the first to jump in when anything else comes up or when we are in a bind and need a star volunteer. For all of this, and other stuff we probably don’t even know about, Chris Sommers is one of the West Coast Volunteers of the Year.

Tyler Hofinga, Director - Strategic Accounts

Salesforce.com, San Francisco

Tyler has been the Chair of the San Francisco Authors Luncheon for eight years and was previously Co-Chair for four years. The Authors Luncheon will celebrate its 18th year this Fall, 2006 and Tyler has been involved for more than a decade. The Luncheon has been Honorary Co-chaired by Ann Getty and Amy Tan since its inception 17 years ago. Tyler volunteers on an on-going basis putting in over 1,000 volunteer hours per year. He skillfully chairs the monthly committee meetings and solicits countless sponsorships for the event throughout the year. His energy and commitment are boundless – he is consistent throughout the year and when it comes to crunch time in October and November he goes above and beyond to make sure the event is flawless. It is to his credit that the event has become the huge success – and indeed premier literary event in the bay area – that it is today.

As well as fundraising dollars Tyler provides incredible leadership to the committee, volunteers and to staff involved in the event. He is always professional, on-task and extremely genial.

As well as the National Kidney Foundation of Northern California, Tyler volunteers with the Oakland Zoo, Orinda Educational Foundation Supporting the Orinda Public Schools, UC Berkeley Alumni Association and the Orinda Library.

Rebecca Westlake, Executive Assistant

Salesforce.com, London, UK

Rebecca was selected as Volunteer of the Year for her overall contribution to Foundation activities, including participation in the Steering Committee, outstanding volunteering including the Teach First dinner and giving incredible support to the EMEA Foundation Director.

Erika Woodcock, Office Manager

Salesforce.com, Dublin, Ireland

Erika was selected for her overall contribution to Foundation activities, including leadership of the Poland community action team, outstanding volunteering including the summer outing to Bray, and being a stalwart of Foundation support in Dublin.

Bekki and Erika will each receive $500 to donate to a charity of their choice.

Testu Yamamoto, Vice President - Corporate Marketing

Salesforce.com, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroshi Nagou, Manager - Corporate Sales

Salesforce.com, Tokyo, Japan