Marc Benioff is the chairman and CEO of salesforce.com, which he co-founded in 1999. Under Benioff's direction, salesforce.com has grown from a groundbreaking idea into a publicly traded company that is the market and technology leader in on-demand business services. Salesforce.com has been lauded as one of BusinessWeek's Top 100 Most Innovative Companies, named No. 7 on The Wired 40 and selected for the past two years as a Top Ten Disrupter by Forbes. Benioff is widely recognized, having received numerous honors such as the 2007 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, among others.  The World Economic Forum named Benioff as one of its Young Global Leaders, and in 2007 the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy presented Benioff with the coveted Excellence in Corporate Philanthropy Award.

Carlye Adler: is an award-winning journalist whose articles have appeared in BusinessWeek, Departures, FORTUNE, Forbes, Portfolio, Travel + Leisure, WIRED, and TIME. With Marc Benioff, she co-wrote The Business of Changing the World. She was a senior writer at Time Inc.'s FSB: Fortune Small Business, where she wrote dozens of feature investigations and won several awards, including being twice named one of the 30 most influential business journalists under 30 years old.