Foundation Staff

Suzanne DiBianca - San Francisco
Julie Trell - San Francisco
Steve Wright - San Francisco
Isabel Kelly - London
Kurt Hagen - San Francisco
Meghan Nesbit - San Francisco
Sara Brophy - Dublin
Elena Rossi - Dublin
Kimberly Hunt - New York
Sean Rosas - San Francisco
Lindsey Anderson - San Francisco
Lindsey Kneuven -San Francisco
Sue McGilpin - San Francisco
Joyce Teo - Singapore
Rie Endo - Tokyo

Nonprofit Vertical Sales Team
Tucker MacLean - Philadelphia
Bryan Breckenridge - San Francisco
Chris Atwood - London
Michelle Best - San Francisco

Foundation Fellow
Heather Woollen - San Francisco

Interns:
William Jue - San Francisco
Cristina Lam - San Francisco
Leeann Crisman - San Francisco
Ayako Kiraiwa - Tokyo

Now Hiring for:
Impact Marketing Manager - San Francisco
Product Manager - San Francisco

Suzanne DiBianca: Chief Service Officer and Executive Director, San Francisco

Suzanne is the executive director and co-founder of the Salesforce.com Foundation. In this role, Suzanne directs all Foundation activities and serves as the liaison to community, business, and government organizations. Under her leadership, the Foundation has grown to serve as a successful model for a new breed of corporate social responsibility through its innovative 1/1/1 Model, where 1% of the company's time, product and equity are given back to the community. Through Suzanne's guidance, two books have been published by the Foundation's Chairman Marc Benioff: The Business of Changing the World (2006), in which 20 great leaders reveal how businesses can leverage the full scope of their resources to make a difference, and Compassionate Capitalism, the first-ever best-practices guide for corporate philanthropy that illustrates the success of the integrated model.

Suzanne is a recognized leader in the area of integrated corporate philanthropy. The Foundation's success under Suzanne's leadership has been recognized with a number of awards for excellence in philanthropy including: the 2002 Points of Light Award for Excellence in Corporate Community Service; the 2003 U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Corporate Stewardship Award; a Codie Award for Excellence in Giving (2006) and the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy's Excellence in Corporate Philanthropy Award (2007).

Before founding the Salesforce.com Foundation, Suzanne was a Principal at CSC Consulting Group in the Strategic Services Division. In this role, she worked with leaders in Fortune 500 companies to assist them in developing strategies for improved organizational performance and enhanced leadership capabilities. Prior to this, Suzanne was the program and marketing director for Partners for Democratic Change, a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide skills for effective conflict management and alternative dispute resolution to NGOs and government officials in Central and Eastern Europe. In this role, she directed program and grants management activities and marketing events for the company.

Suzanne has served on a number of Boards and advisory councils in the community including: San Francisco School Volunteers, the World Affairs Council's Global Philanthropy Forum; and the Business Advisory Council to SFUSD. She is a graduate of the University of Colorado, at Boulder with a BA in Communications and Economics.

Julie Trell, Director of All Things Fun, Meaningful and Rewarding, San Francisco

Julie joined the Foundation in July 2000 to team with after school youth technology centers to develop relevant programs and activities. Today, her main role is as the Volunteer Director for the employees at salesforce.com. She helps place employees interested in working with youth at the various Community Technology Centers, as well as other volunteer opportunities around the city and globally. She helps direct volunteers to projects best suited for their life and work style. She also deploys experienced salesforce.com employees to implement the donated salesforce CRM product.

In addition, Julie helped to develop and deliver BizAcademy. She helped write the curriculum, manage logistics including volunteers, and reach out to the community.

Julie has a BA in Psychology from Emory University, and an M.Ed from Georgia State in Early Childhood Education, and then went on to work in elementary and middle schools in underserved communities in Atlanta. In 1999 she was named Apple Distinguished Educator recognizing her exemplary and innovative style working with educational technologies.

Steve Wright, Director of Innovation, San Francisco

My Free / Busy Calendar

Prior to joining the Salesforce.com Foundation, Steve worked for thirteen years in K12 education and technology. He was a high school administrator and a classroom teacher for nine years, beginning with the Peace Corps in Micronesia.

Steve joined Salesforce.com Foundation in September 2000, initially working to help youth-serving organizations maintain effective IT for both administrative and programmatic purposes. In an effort to create greater scale, Steve led the effort to build a robust product donation program. Now the salesforce.com Foundation has donated the force.com data management platform to over 4,000 organizations in 55 countries. It is now Steve's goal, and the goal of the salesforce.com Foundation, to measurably increase the efficacy of the global social sector through effective data management.

Isabel Kelly, Director, Europe, Middle East and Africa. London

As Director of the Salesforce Foundation EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa), Isabel works in the UK, Ireland and other regional salesforce.com offices. She uses the power of the 1% model, and the passion of employees for the Foundation, to implement and integrate employee volunteering, technology and product donation projects throughout the EMEA region. Isabel ensures that the Salesforce Foundation vision and mission is cultivated internationally, and always reminds her co-workers to think globally!

Isabel brings international relations, research and communication skills to the Foundation; before joining Salesforce Foundation in 2002, she implemented Amnesty International (AI)'s international human rights campaigning for China, focusing on Tibet. She worked with AI’s membership, governments, the United Nations and the international media, NGOs, IGOs, businesses and other organizations. She also worked on projects in Hong Kong and with Tibetan refugee communities in India and Nepal. Prior to her work with Amnesty International, Isabel spent several years gaining invaluable administration and operations experience working with NGOs and the local government in the UK.

Kurt Hagen, Finance & Operations Director, San Francisco

Kurt is the Finance & Operations Director for the Foundation. In this role, he works closely with all staff members to ensure that the foundation adheres to proper accounting, tax, and operational principles and guidelines, both on a domestic and international level. Kurt also manages the company assets, the external audit process, and the internal budget process. He is responsible for ensuring that the foundation is in compliance with current tax and other regulations and reporting requirements.

Prior to joining the Foundation in August, 2005, Kurt was the Controller at Filoli Center, a National Trust for Historic Preservation property located in Woodside, CA. In his role as Controller, Kurt worked with the Board of Directors and the Executive Director to help create sound investment and capital spending policies to help protect the long term financial sustainability of the Center.

Kurt has worked as a financial professional in the Bay Area since 1987 in a variety of roles in both the public and private sectors. Kurt and his wife are busy raising their two children, and he considers his most important role to be that of a devoted father. Kurt graduated from Westminster College with a BS in Finance.

Meghan Nesbit, Senior Manager, Alliances and Global Product Donations, San Francisco

Meghan's interest in on-demand technologies spans back to 1999 in her experience working with business to business ASPs including WebAccommodate and Spark Online. While the technology was fascinating, Meghan's passion to create change in the world and apply her Economic and International Development studies from the University of New Brunswick led her to leave the commercial sector and join KickStart, an international nonprofit founded in Kenya to promote economic development. While working in the nonprofit sector, Meghan learned firsthand the crippling effect social change organizations face from lack of access to technology and information management resources. Recognizing the potential of the Salesforce.com Foundation's product donation program to provide technology solutions to the nonprofit sector as a whole, Meghan joined the Foundation to expand the impact of its product donation program. Since joining the Salesforce.com Foundation in 2005, Meghan has led the expansion of the product donation program from 300 organizations to over 4,000 nonprofits in 53 countries around the world.

Sara Brophy, Program Manager, Dublin

Based in the European headquarters in Dublin, Sara works on CRM donations and volunteering opportunities for EMEA.

Sara has a B.A. in Sociology and philosophy and graduated in 2005 with a Masters in Social Science (Social Policy) from University College Dublin. She volunteered during the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI), helping raise awareness of their political lobbying campaigns regarding the rights of migrant workers in Ireland.

Prior to receiving her graduate degree, she worked as a web developer. She has also worked in the University College of Dublin’s Institute for the Study of Social Change (ISSC).

Elena Rossi, Program Manager, Dublin

Elena joined the Foundation in July 2004 as an intern to organize the Sports Day, a volunteering event for SFDC employees in Dublin.

Since then she is been working on facilitating the volunteering for the EMEA workforce and to administering the product donation licenses.
She is now responsible for the volunteering in Ireland Switzerland, France and southern Europe and she manages the EMEA non-profit accounts.

Elena is Italian, from Milan and she is been living in Dublin for the last 8 years. She has worked in the travel industry for several years so she could follow her lifelong desire to explore the world and to get to know different cultures. The passion for cultural diversity nurtured her interest on social issues and ethnic minorities.

In the last year Elena is also enjoying the new experience of being a mom.

Kimberly Hunt, Senior Foundation Manager, New York

As the Community Service Development Manager – East, Kimberly focuses on facilitating meaningful volunteer experiences for salesforce.com employees, developing the Foundation’s partnerships with nonprofit organizations, and championing compassionate change in corporations in Toronto and on the East Coast. Kimberly brings a deep commitment to community service and a strong belief in the power and necessity of corporate responsibility.

Prior to joining the Foundation in 2006, Kimberly spent a year as a Citizen Action AmeriCorps Member at the Hands On Network, where she developed and managed volunteer projects that addressed critical community needs, while interfacing with San Francisco Bay Area schools and service agencies to maximize their partnership. Kimberly spent eight years in the event management industry and worked at industry-leading companies such as Hyatt Hotels and Charles Schwab. Her varied for-profit and nonprofit experience gives her a unique perspective to philanthropy and volunteerism.

Sean Rosas, Manager of Projects that Impact the Community, San Francisco

Sean joined the Salesforce.com Foundation in September 2007. Through harnessing the enthusiasm and spirit of salesforce.com's community-minded employees, Sean fosters meaningful volunteer experiences and promotes the 1% Time model. In addition, he encourages deep employee non-profit involvement and empowering salesforce.com employees to become Agents of Change. It is through integrating philanthropy into best business practices that Sean believes companies can become powerful catalysts for positive social change.

Prior to joining the Foundation, Sean was the Manager of Volunteer Services at Project Open Hand. For six years he managed a diverse volunteer population with the mission to provide good nutritional meals to those living with HIV/AIDS, the home-bound critically ill, Seniors, and those surviving breast cancer.

Sean is a proud parent. Also, he is an avid Star Trek fan. He loves learning and is a big proponent of the Service Learning model. Sean is currently pursuing a M.A. in Industrial Organizational Psychology and possesses an M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Golden Gate University.

Lindsey Kneuven, Grants Manager, San Francisco

Lindsey joined the Foundation in April of 2007. As Grants Manager, she is responsible for the management of the Foundation’s competitive, donor-advised and employee inspired grants. She is currently working to refine the grant processes in hopes of providing more transparency and enhancing the ability of the social sector to effect positive change. Lindsey is actively involved in cultivating and strengthening relationships with grantees. On that front, Lindsey chairs both the Equity and Product councils, which are designed to engage and empower company employees directly with grantees. She is working with council members to create lasting and symbiotic relationships between grant recipients and Salesforce.com employees, and is excited to harness the skills and enthusiasm that both groups have to offer. She sees tremendous potential in the power of communication and hopes to enhance the success of all grants by facilitating and strengthening grantee-to-grantee and grantee-to-employee communication.

Prior to joining the Foundation, Lindsey worked at M Financial Group in Portland, Oregon as a Project Manager and Editor. In Portland , she committed her time to Habitat for Humanity, led GED tutoring in a maximum security men's prison, and served as a resource for African immigrants. She holds a BA in English from Carleton College . While at Carleton, Lindsey served for 3 years as the Program Director for College Buddies, a program designed to pair college students with residents of the Laura Baker School , a residence for developmentally disabled adults. Now, in San Francisco , she serves as a Project Homeless Connect lead for the dental section. She loves hiking, camping and just generally exploring. She practices book arts, loves dancing and is driven by her desire to improve the situations of those in need.

Sue McGilpin, Operations Manager, San Francisco

Sue is a native Californian and now happy to call the Bay Area home, where “every weekend feels like a vacation.” Sue attended UCSB and worked in a variety of industries, from aerospace to travel to manufacturing. After 25 years in Santa Barbara, she followed her heart (and her partner) and moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1998 where she worked for New Mexico AIDS Services. Sue’s inspiration for working with the HIV/AIDS affected community was borne from the courage, suffering and loss of many friends from that illness. Her dedication to the cause filtered into other areas and she became an avid volunteer (and, really, there was nothing else TO do in Albuquerque), giving many hours to other issues, such as Health Care for the Homeless, the NAMES Project and Habitat for Humanity. Last year when Sue and her partner returned to California, she knew she wanted to continue working for an organization that serves its community and found a nice fit right here at Salesforce Foundation in July of 2005. Sue’s role at the Foundation includes working closely with the Director of Finance and overseeing internal operations.

Joyce Teo, Foundation Manager APAC, Singapore

Joyce joined the Foundation in June 2007. She works in Singapore and looks after the Foundation's programs in Singapore and parts of the Asia Pacific region except Japan and Korea. She works closely with employees to realize meaningful volunteering opportunities and integrate their efforts with technology and project donation projects with non-profit organizations. Joyce hopes to build up capacities of the people and private sector in doing good well through the integrated philanthropy model where corporates and non-profits will partner and leverage on each other's strengths towards making the world a better place.

Before joining the Foundation, Joyce worked with the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre, Singapore focusing on promoting and developing the giving spirit amongst Singaporeans. She was then part of the community partnerships team, facilitating giving opportunities with corporates and youths in areas of volunteerism and philanthropy. She professes to be a serial ad-hoc volunteer and loves to take part in all sorts of different types of volunteer work from helping animals, advocating for the mentally-ill, befriending the elderly, promoting the arts and getting dirty for environmental causes. Joyce graduated from the National University of Singapore with a degree in Southeast Asian Studies and English Literature. Enjoying the roller-coaster ride of working in the non-profit sector, she sees life with a wacky sense of humor and believes in the power of one. We can't make all the differences in the world but we can start with one.

Rie Endo, Foundation Manager APAC, Tokyo

Rie joined the Salesforce.com Foundation in May 2007. Based in Japan, she is responsible for managing and developing our 1/1/1/1 model in the APAC region, mainly in Japan and Korea. The programs include Employee Volunteering, donation of Salesforce.com product, BizAcademy, grant management, Employee Steering Committees and Councils. Rie believes that there are still many more things to do to make the world a better place and hopes to widely share our 1/1/1/1 model with customers, partners and the business industries in the region.

Prior to joining Salesforce Foundation, Rie worked with the Japan Association for the World Food Programme (JAWFP), a nonprofit which assists activities of the United Nations World Food Programme in advocacy and fundraising. She contributed her power in expanding strong partnership with Japanese private sectors inlcluding companies/organizations, which was a great opportunity for her to know how to implement CSR from the viewpoint of a nonprofit. She was also a Salesforce.com nonprofit customer. Before joining the JAWFP, She worked for 3 years with the London office of a Japanese semi-governmental organization: The Japan Foundation in the UK, which promotes cultural exchange between Japan and the UK. In addition to this, she has 3 years experience working for the Japan Bank for International Cooperation.

Rie graduated from the Japan Women's University with a BA in Humanities and Culture. She loves playing tennis, and enjoys the Arts and classical music.

Tucker MacLean, Senior Director, salesforce.com Nonprofits & Education

Tucker MacLean is the Senior Director of Nonprofit and Education at Salesforce.com. Tucker has over 10 years experience working in CRM and on-demand applications and joined Salesforce.com in 2000. He served numerous roles in the Sales and Services organizations before shifting his focus full time to the Nonprofit sector in early 2006 as the Salesforce.com Foundation's first fellow. Since then, he has worked closely with the Salesforce.com Foundation to expand the license donations program and in early 2007, Tucker started a new discount program for organizations looking to grow beyond the standard donation where all of our license offerings are made available at an 80% discount off of the commercial rates. Tucker runs the nonprofit discount program and manages a global team that supports all qualified nonprofit organizations and educational institutions using the Force.com platform.

Tucker resides in Philadelphia with his wife and two daughters and has a BA in Economics from Trinity College.

Bryan Breckenridge, Director, salesforce.com Nonprofits & Education

Bryan started at salesforce.com in early 2001 as one of it's first Account Executives. Since joining he's served in several sales, global sales leadership and Salesforce.com Foundation steering committee roles. His most proud achievement was earning the San Francisco Community Spirit Award for volunteerism in 2004. In early 2007 Bryan was promoted to Director of salesforce.com's Nonprofit and Education team which was established to ensure success for larger nonprofits and academic institutions using the Force.com platform. According to Bryan, "The work we're doing is improving the world and we're just getting started!"

Bryan lives in the San Francisco area. He energizes, inspires and learns from everyone he meets and enjoys any activity involving his daughter or the outdoors.

Chris Atwood, Regional Account Executive, Nonprofits & Education, EMEA

Chris Atwood is the Regional Account Executive responsible for nonprofit and education sales for Europe, Middle East, and Africa. Chris joined Salesforce.com in 2007 after working for two years for Astadia Consulting (formally Theikos) working with nonprofit, public sector, and application development.

Chris is responsible for managing large account relationships and has been instrumental in growing the nonprofit vertical and ensuring that large nonprofits are successful on the Salesforce.com platform.

Chris resides in London, loves to travel, practice his spanish, and cook.

Heather Woollen, Foundation Fellow 2008, San Francisco

Heather joined us as the Foundation Fellow in June 2008. For the next year she will be working with the Foundation team and liaising with salesforce.com to develop a social enterprise model for the Foundation.

Heather joined salesforce.com in 2006. Before coming to the Foundation, she was focused on growing the success of the AppExchange, the world's first on-demand application-sharing service, and serving as an evangelist for Force.com, which has reinvented the traditional development, deployment and distribution of any business application with platform-as-a-service. Prior to joining salesforce.com, Heather was a consultant working extensively with high tech clients on business strategy topics spanning M&A, market entry, product/solution marketing, branding, and channel strategy. Heather holds a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering degree from Georgia Tech and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard.

Heather lives in the San Francisco area with her husband. They both enjoy cooking and playing with their golden retriever, Henry.

William Jue, Finance Intern

William joined the Foundation in February 2007. He first heard of the Foundation by participating in the second BizAcademy in San Francisco. His role in his company, Sparkle, was Vice President of Marketing and in the end, his company won and made the most revenue. His role at the Foundation has been helping Kurt and Sue enter grants into the Salesforce.com Application and setting up mailings to go out to other Foundation locations and Foundation supporters. He also is on hand to support other Foundation staff when needed and as well as gathering research and organizing information for the Foundation website or other supporting roles.

William is currently attending San Francisco State University and majoring in Business Management. His plans after finishing school is not quite clear yet but it maybe becoming an entrepreneur or working for some company, it's still up in the air. Working at the Foundation has given William a great start to his future career.

Cristina Lam, Volunteer Coordinator Intern, San Francisco

Cristina was first introduced to Salesforce by participating in the first ever BizAcademy in 2005. She started an internship in the Sales Operations department in October 2006 and is now interning with the foundation as their community involvement coordinator. She enjoys working in the foundation because it allows her to connect employees to the community. She finds it rewarding to hear the feedback and experiences of the volunteers.

Cristina is currently a student at City College of San Francisco; she plans to transfer in the fall of 2008 as an international relations major.

Ayako Hiraiwa, Foundation Intern, Tokyo

Ayako joined Foundation in March 2008. She was introduced to Salesforce by ETIC, the organization which runs internship programs between students and companies. She decided to work at the Foundation as she wanted to know how and to what extent a company contribute to society. Her role at Foundation is helping Rie with her daily work, translating documents, gathering and organizaing information, and finding partners with which
Foundation will be able to share their 1% model.

She is currently a student at Tsuda College, majoring in International Relationship. Her plan in the future is not clear yet, but she has an interest in solving problems in developing countries and has a wish to work in the development sector. There are many ways to involve with such a sector but working at the Foundation will show her one way and it will be a great experience for her.

Leeann Crisman, Community Involvement Coordinator, San Francisco

A third generation native San Franciscan! Leean started off with her involvement in the Salesforce.com Foundation during Spring Break as part of BizAcademy 2008! After the program she became excited and enthused as ever and decided to follow up about the internships described in the program! Leeann accepted with joy this current internship with the foundation as their new Community Involvement Coordinator. As she starts off her Junior Year at Lincoln High School she keeps a smile on her face and is hoping to gain more experience than she could ever ask for. She looks forward to the next few years at Salesforce.com Foundation!

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