Keith Block
co-CEO, Salesforce
Keith Block is co-chief executive officer of Salesforce and serves on the company’s board of directors.
Block has served as vice chairman, president and a director of Salesforce since joining the company in June 2013, and as chief operating officer since February 2016. As president and COO, Block oversaw the company’s rapidly growing, multibillion-dollar global sales and services business, alliances and channels, industry strategy, corporate development, corporate affairs, marketing and business operations. He has managed world-class sales, consulting, and engineering teams for nearly 30 years with a focus on customer transformation.
Prior to joining Salesforce, Block served as Oracle’s executive vice president of North America Sales and Consulting, where he led a multibillion-dollar sales and services business unit that achieved record revenue and margin during his tenure. He began his career at Booz Allen Hamilton as a senior consultant.
Block currently serves on the World Economic Forum’s Information Technology community as a governor, the board of trustees for Carnegie Mellon University, the advisory board for Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College, and the board of trustees at the Concord Museum. In February 2018, Block and his wife, Suzanne, helped establish the Block Center for Technology and Society at Carnegie Mellon University, which will create meaningful plans of action to ensure emerging technologies can be harnessed for social good, are more inclusive, and improve quality of life.
Block holds a Master of Science degree in Management and Policy Analysis and a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University.