The email continued: “Lidiane has a strong background in customer and enterprise tech and has been among Salesforce’s leadership for over three years. Stewart also was instrumental in choosing Lidiane Jones as the next Slack CEO to lead it into its next chapter.” “He has helped lead the successful integration of Slack into Salesforce and today Slack is woven into the Salesforce Customer 360 platform.

“Stewart is an incredible leader who created an amazing, beloved company in Slack,” a Salesforce spokesperson wrote in an email to CRN. Succeeding Butterfield is Lidiane Jones, who’s worked at San Francisco-based Salesforce for more than three years and currently holds the title of executive vice president and general manager of Salesforce’s Experience, Commerce and Marketing cloud.ĬRN has reached out to Butterfield and Jones for comment. Salesforce has confirmed a second executive departure shocker before closing out the year, with Slack CEO and co-founder Stewart Butterfield leaving collaboration application and Salesforce subsidiary, the enterprise applications vendor told CRN in an email.

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