The CEO of the Year Keynote presentation Leading The End of Software Revolution  will be delivered onsite by:
Jim Steele, Chief Customer Officer and President, Worldwide Sales, salesforce.com shares the strategies behind the company's rapid growth and success.

Key Take-Aways:

     Best practices for successfully executing on a vision
     A framework for making customer success the foundation of  your business
     Insight on integrating corporate philanthropy into the fabric of your organization

 Jim Steele
 Chief Customer Officer and President,
 Worldwide Sales

As chief customer officer and president of worldwide sales, Jim Steele oversees global sales. He is charged with advancing the company's winning on-demand strategy, customer success, and growing the customer base.
 
Steele joined salesforce.com in October 2002 from Ariba Corporation, where he served as executive vice president of worldwide sales.
 
Steele brings over 25 years of technology sales and executive management experience to his new role at salesforce.com. Previously, he served in a variety of executive roles at International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation. Most recently, Steele was vice president of the North America western area, where he was responsible for over $9 billion in hardware, software, and services sales of a 10,000 employee organization. His prior positions at IBM include nearly four years in Tokyo as vice president of systems sales as well as general manager of telecommunications in Asia Pacific where he led IBM to record revenue and market share growth.
 
Steele holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Bucknell University.