John Somorjai

John Somorjai is the Executive Vice President of Corporate Development & Salesforce Ventures at salesforce.com. Since 2005, he has been leading the evaluation, deal execution and integration of mergers and acquisitions, and investments. John’s team has helped bring the company into significant new growth areas through acquisitions including MuleSoft, Tableau, Demandware, Exact Target, Click, Datorama, Heroku, Instranet, Krux, MetaMind, Model Metrics, Quip, RelateIQ, and Steelbrick, and also brought onboard a number of key leaders.

In addition, John leads Salesforce Ventures. Salesforce Ventures invests in the next generation of enterprise technology. Portfolio companies can access the world’s largest cloud ecosystem, receive guidance from salesforce.com executives, and leverage salesforce.com Foundation's integrated philanthropy model to give back to their communities. The Salesforce Ventures portfolio includes innovative cloud companies such as Anaplan, AutomationAnywhere, Box, Classy, DocuSign, Dropbox, FinancialForce, GainSight, HighSpot, nCino, MongoDB, MuleSoft, Stripe, SurveyMonkey, Twilio, Vlocity, and Zoom. Salesforce Ventures has invested in more than 375 enterprise cloud startups in 22 countries since 2009, and the Salesforce Ventures portfolio has had 19 IPOs.

John is a member of the Board of the National Venture Capital Association.