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Marc Benioff
Chair, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Executive
27 yr
72,682 reports
Salesforce, Inc. ·CRM
Eleven presidents report directly to founder-CEO Benioff
Technology · Fortune #95 · Functional structure · 73K employees · San Francisco, CA
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11
CEO span
↑ wider than peers (avg 9)
2.5
Avg span
tight
3
Max depth
3 levels
7.1 yr
Avg tenure
stable vs FY2025
64%
Internal hires
↑ above industry avg
Consolidated financials FY2025 · period end 2026-01-31 · 10-K
Revenue
$41.5B
Operating income
$8.3B
Net income
$7.5B
Total assets
$112.3B
Shares out
923M
Sourced from Salesforce, Inc. DEF 14A · filed 2026-04-16 ↗ View on SEC
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Eleven presidents report directly to founder-CEO Marc Benioff, giving Salesforce an unusually wide and flat top structure. This page maps the executive org, analyzes CEO span and depth, tracks recent leadership changes, and compares Salesforce’s functional model with large-cap software peers.
What to model
Use the chart to test org decisions, not just view reporting lines
Start with the public baseline, then use the scenario views and source-backed changes to ask what happens when leadership, span, or team ownership shifts.
Latest signal Robin Washington moved into Principal Accounting Officer
Assumed PAO responsibilities effective March 9, 2026 as part of finance reorganization.
Source · See change logScenario views in the chart
- Add Chief AI Officer Create a dedicated Chief AI Officer reporting to the CEO to centralize AI strategy beyond product and engineering.
- Insert standalone COO Separate operating responsibilities from finance by adding a standalone COO, reducing CEO span.
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The people
Who's running this
12 executives identified as Named Executive Officers in the most recent SEC proxy. Bar length scales with tenure.
internal
Parker Harris
Co-Founder, Salesforce & Chief Technology Officer, Slack
Technology
26 yr
0 reports
Robin Washington
President & Chief Operating and Financial Officer
Finance & Operations
1 yr
1 reports
internal
David Schmaier
President & Chief Strategy Officer
Strategy
6 yr
0 reports
Miguel Milano
President & Chief Revenue Officer
Sales
3 yr
0 reports
internal
Nathalie Scardino
Chief People Officer
Human Resources
5 yr
0 reports
internal
Patrick Stokes
President & Chief Marketing Officer
Marketing
4 yr
0 reports
Sabastian Niles
President & Chief Legal Officer
Legal
3 yr
0 reports
internal
Srinivas Tallapragada
President & Chief Engineering and Customer Success Officer
Engineering & Customer Success
4 yr
0 reports
internal
Steve Fisher
President & Chief Product Officer
Product
2 yr
0 reports
internal
Suzanne DiBianca
Executive Vice President & Chief Impact Officer
Impact & ESG
6 yr
0 reports
internal
Kendall Collins
CEO, Government Cloud
Public Sector
2 yr
0 reports
The pay
Executive compensation
From the most recent DEF 14A Summary Compensation Table. 1 named executive officers disclosed. Bar length scales with total compensation.
Marc Benioff $49.4M
- Base salary
- $1.55M
- Bonus
- $1K
- Stock awards
- $27.27M
- Option awards
- $10.74M
- Non-equity incentive
- $3.60M
- Other
- $6.22M
- Fiscal year
- FY2026
- Source
- SEC DEF 14A ↗
The skin in the game
Beneficial ownership
Insider stock holdings and the company's ownership requirements for executives and directors. Disclosed in the most recent DEF 14A.
Stock ownership requirements
5×CEO base salary
3×NEO base salary
5×Director cash retainer
Executives and directors are subject to stock ownership guidelines expressed as multiples of base salary or cash retainer.
| Holder | Shares | % of class |
|---|---|---|
| Marc Benioff | 22.79M | 2.8% |
The businesses
How Salesforce, Inc. divides the work
5 divisions report into the group CEO. Tile size scales with estimated headcount.
Sales
15K employees
President & Chief Revenue Officer (Miguel Milano)
Global enterprise and commercial sales organization driving subscription and platform revenue.
Engineering & Customer Success
22K employees
President & Chief Engineering and Customer Success Officer (Srinivas Tallapragada)
Product engineering, platform reliability, and post-sale customer success.
Finance & Operations
4K employees
President & Chief Operating and Financial Officer (Robin Washington)
Finance, accounting, procurement, and core operational functions.
Product
6K employees
President & Chief Product Officer (Steve Fisher)
Product management and roadmap across Salesforce clouds.
People
3K employees
Chief People Officer (Nathalie Scardino)
Talent, culture, compensation, and human capital management.
The thesis
Why this org is unusual
Eleven presidents and functional chiefs report directly to Marc Benioff, an unusually broad CEO span for a large-cap software company.
Salesforce operates a predominantly functional structure, but with product, revenue, engineering, marketing, legal, people, and even Government Cloud all elevated to president-level roles. This creates a flat top with significant autonomy at level two, while avoiding divisional P&L CEOs.
The structure reflects Salesforce’s founder-led culture and emphasis on coordination across clouds rather than independent business units. Engineering and customer success are unified under a single president, while Slack’s CTO remains a distinct role reporting to Benioff, underscoring Slack’s strategic importance. The absence of a standalone COO—despite the COFO title—keeps operational authority closely tied to finance.
- Founder-led company with unusually large CEO span
- No standalone COO role
- Engineering and Customer Success combined under one president
The comparison
How Salesforce, Inc. stacks up
Compared with other mega-cap software peers, Salesforce’s CEO span is larger and flatter. Microsoft and Alphabet rely on divisional CEOs with deeper hierarchies, while Oracle and SAP maintain clearer product P&L structures. Salesforce instead concentrates power at the top functional layer, trading depth for …
C-suite size
Reporting depth
Avg C-suite tenure
Has COO / Has CAIO
Salesforce, Inc. — no COO — no CAIO
SAP ✓ COO — no CAIO
Current signals
What changed recently
The most significant recent change was Robin Washington assuming principal accounting officer duties in March 2026 following the CFO transition.
Leadership Timeline
Year-over-year executive structure based on SEC proxy and annual filings.
FY2026
DEF 14A filed 2026-04-16
- CEO
- Marc Benioff
- CEO span
- 11
- C-suite
- 7
- Avg tenure
- 7.1 yr
Leadership stabilized after CFO transition, with finance and operations combined.
Named executive officers (6)
- Marc Benioff - Chair & CEO since 1999
- Robin Washington - President & COFO since 2025
- Srinivas Tallapragada - President & Chief Engineering and Customer Success Officer since 2022
- Miguel Milano - President & CRO since 2023
- Parker Harris - CTO, Slack since 1999
- David Schmaier - President & CSO since 2020
FY2025
DEF 14A filed 2025-04-24
- CEO
- Marc Benioff
- CEO span
- 10
- C-suite
- 7
- Avg tenure
- 7.4 yr
CFO transition announced late in fiscal year.
Named executive officers (5)
- Marc Benioff - Chair & CEO since 1999
- Amy Weaver - President & CFO since 2019
- Srinivas Tallapragada - President & Chief Engineering Officer since 2022
- Miguel Milano - President & CRO since 2023
- Parker Harris - CTO since 1999
FY2024
DEF 14A filed 2024-04-25
- CEO
- Marc Benioff
- CEO span
- 10
- C-suite
- 7
- Avg tenure
- 8 yr
Pre-transition finance leadership under Amy Weaver.
Named executive officers (4)
- Marc Benioff - Chair & CEO since 1999
- Amy Weaver - President & CFO since 2019
- Parker Harris - CTO since 1999
- David Schmaier - Chief Strategy Officer since 2020
Year-over-year changes
Fiscal 2025 reflected the announced CFO transition without immediate structural change.
- CEO span: 10 → 10
- C-suite size: 7 → 7
- Avg tenure: 8 → 7.4 yr
- reorg Finance Leadership - CFO Transition (was Amy Weaver as CFO) (DEF 14A Apr 2025)
Fiscal 2026 formalized the finance reorganization, increasing CEO span slightly.
- CEO span: 10 → 11
- C-suite size: 7 → 7
- Avg tenure: 7.4 → 7.1 yr
- departed Amy Weaver - President & CFO (was President & CFO) (DEF 14A Apr 2026)
- promoted Robin Washington - President & COFO (was Director) (DEF 14A Apr 2026)
The board
Board of directors
4 directors. 2 of 4 independent (50%). Source: most recent DEF 14A.
Marc Benioff
Chair Inside
Chair & CEO, Salesforce
Arnold Donald
Lead Indep. Independent
Former CEO, Carnival Corporation
Also on: Bank of America, GE Vernova
Parker Harris
Inside
CTO, Slack
Laura Alber
Independent
President & CEO, Williams-Sonoma
Also on: Williams-Sonoma
The board, organized
Board committees
1 standing committees. Audit and Compensation must be 100% independent under SEC rules; the rest vary.
Audit Committee
100% independent
- Arnold Donald Chair
- Laura Alber
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is the CEO of Salesforce?
Marc Benioff has served as Chair and CEO since founding Salesforce in 1999.
What type of organizational structure does Salesforce use?
Salesforce uses a predominantly functional structure with major functions led by president-level executives.
How many direct reports does Salesforce's CEO have?
Marc Benioff has 11 direct reports as of 2026.
How has Salesforce's leadership changed recently?
In March 2026, Robin Washington assumed principal accounting officer duties, following the 2025 CFO transition.
Does Salesforce have a COO?
Salesforce does not have a standalone COO; operational responsibilities sit within the Chief Operating and Financial Officer role.
Sources
- 8-K Filing, Mar 2026
- Company Proxy, Apr 2026
- SEC EDGAR: Salesforce, Inc. DEF 14A Proxy Statement
- SEC EDGAR: Salesforce, Inc. 10-K Annual Report
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