Salesforce EVP and World CRO Communications, Media and Know-how Denise Holland Dresser, Rocket Mortgage CMO Casey Hurbis, and Boston Consulting Group Managing Director and Companion Shilpa Sharma converse throughout Vox Media’s Code Convention on Sept. 7, 2022 in Beverly Hills, California.
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Longtime Salesforce govt Denise Dresser has been appointed CEO of Slack, Salesforce co-founder and chief govt Marc Benioff introduced on Monday.
Dresser turns into the third CEO of the Salesforce unit because it was acquired by Salesforce in 2020. Her position as CEO is efficient instantly, a Salesforce spokesperson informed CNBC.
She has been a Salesforce govt for greater than 12 years, in response to her firm biography and LinkedIn profile, most just lately as president of accelerated industries. Dresser will take the highest job on the Slack after its most up-to-date CEO, Lidiane Jones, accepted the chief govt position at courting app Bumble earlier this month. Jones’ new place as Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd’s successor takes impact January 2.
Jones will keep on via the yr to help Dresser with the transition, the spokesperson stated.
Dresser thanked each Benioff and Jones in a post on X Monday morning. “It is an honor to maneuver this work ahead,” she wrote.
“Denise is a collaborative know-how chief who brings groups collectively and has impressed me and so many people together with her deep dedication to our values and to our clients and to the spirit of innovation,” Benioff said in his announcement on social media platform X, previously often known as Twitter.
Dresser has held plenty of govt positions at Salesforce and serves on the Advert Council’s board of administrators. She is a graduate of College of Massachusetts Amherst, and earlier than Salesforce labored at each Oracle and former Large 5 auditor Arthur Andersen.
Slack was acquired by Salesforce for $27.7 billion in a 2020 deal. Because the deal shut, plenty of senior Salesforce executives have left the corporate.
Most notably, Slack founder Stewart Butterfield and Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor departed within the span of two weeks in December 2022. Each had joined Salesforce after the businesses they based have been acquired. Butterfield’s departure led to Jones’ ascension, and Taylor’s departure got here a yr after he was promoted to co-CEO of Salesforce alongside founder Benioff. In a message to staff on the time, Butterfield stated his departure was unconnected to Taylor’s.
Salesforce shares are up practically 61% year-to-date. On the open Monday, shares have been properly off their 52-week low, set in December 2022, of $126.34.
–CNBC’s Ari Levy and Jordan Novet contributed to this report.
