SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Salesforce
[NYSE: CRM], the Customer Success Platform and world's #1 CRM
company, today announced that Monica
Langley will join the company as Executive Vice President,
Global Strategic Affairs. She will work with the Salesforce
executive team to develop strategies that will continue to
accelerate the company's unmatched growth in the industry.
Prior to Salesforce, Langley spent 27 years at The Wall
Street Journal, where she wrote many page-one profiles,
particularly of newsmakers such as CEOs and presidential
candidates. She has long chronicled high-profile companies, such as
General Motors, Boeing and JPMorgan Chase, and wrote the 2003
bestselling book Tearing Down the Walls: How Sandy Weill Fought
His Way to the Top of the Financial World...and Then Nearly Lost it
All.
"Monica is a consummate strategic thinker with decades of
experience reporting on Fortune 500 companies," said Keith Block, vice chairman, president and COO,
Salesforce. "She brings unique insight into management and
corporate strategy that will help guide us as we reach $10 billion in annual revenue and work towards
our next big milestone, $20
billion."
Langley began her career in corporate law and
government-relations, including representation of publicly traded
companies and nonprofits. While at The Wall Street Journal,
Langley was also an adjunct professor of journalism at Columbia University and of First Amendment law at
Georgetown University Law Center. In
addition to awards for her work at The Wall Street Journal,
Ms. Langley was personally awarded the prestigious Matrix Award, as
one of the nation's exceptional women in the media and the
arts.
"I've watched with great interest the stellar performance of
Salesforce in recent years," Langley said. "I am incredibly excited
to join this industry leader for its next phase of growth." She
will officially start at Salesforce in March
2017.
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