Salman Malik

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Salesforce

COO, Products

Salman joined Salesforce in 2015 as COO of Products. He oversees the operational management of product development across Salesforce’s entire portfolio of products, and leads strategic initiatives such as GDPR and Privacy across the product organization to accelerate adoption and drive customer success.



Prior to Salesforce, Salman was CEO of Brightpearl – a cloud-based order, inventory, and accounting platform for multi-channel retail – helping its founders grow the business to more than 1,300 active customers and $1.5B in annualized orders processed through the platform. Salman began his career in enterprise software and CRM at Siebel Systems in its early years, where he was a member of the Siebel Founder's Circle and advocated the development of Siebel's early Web-based products. Prior to Siebel, he co-founded Firefly Network, an early pioneer of personalization and recommendation technologies that was acquired by Microsoft in 1998. Salman received a BSE in Electrical Engineering from Princeton, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and spent two years at Boston Consulting Group focused on business strategy.