Marc Benioff

Extracted Attributes

• Award

  Variety Magazine EmPOWerment Award

• Gender

  male

• Heritage

  Jewish

• Hometown

  Hillsborough

• Author of

  Trailblazer: The Power of Business as the Greatest Platform for Change

• Education

  University of Southern California (BS in Business Administration)

• Full Name

  Marc Russell Benioff

• Known For

  Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Salesforce; Owner of Time magazine

• Net Worth

  $8.4 billion

• Occupation

  Internet entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Businessperson, CEO, Chairman, Co-founder

• High School

  Burlingame High School

• Nationality

  American

• Recognition

  One of the 10 Best-Performing CEOs (Harvard Business Review)

• Date of Birth

  1964-09-25

• Place of Birth

  San Francisco, California, U.S.

Timeline

• Born Marc Russell Benioff in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, U.S. (Source: Wikipedia, Wikidata, Web Search)

  1964-09-25

• Graduated from Burlingame High School. (Source: Web Search)

  1982

• Co-founded Salesforce, pioneering cloud computing. (Source: Wikipedia, DBPedia, Web Search)

  Unknown Date

• Acquired Time magazine. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, DBPedia, Web Search)

  2018-09

• Elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering. (Source: Web Search)

  2019

• Received the Yale Legend in Leadership Award. (Source: Web Search)

  2024

• Received the Colin Powell Distinguished Leadership Award. (Source: Web Search)

  2024

Marc Benioff

Marc Russell Benioff (born September 25, 1964) 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.

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• Award

  Knight of the Legion of Honour

• Image

  

• Gender

  male

• Educated At

  University of Southern California

• Instance Of

  Q5

• Occupation

  businessperson

• Citizenship

  United States

• Date Of Birth

  9/25/1964

• Place Of Birth

  San Francisco

Marc Russell Benioff (born September 25, 1964) is an American internet entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the co-founder, chairman and CEO of Salesforce, an enterprise cloud computing company. In September 2018, Benioff acquired Time.