Wave of resignations of senior managers at Salesforce. Only a few days ago the departure of its CoCEO Bret Taylor was confirmed, and there is already another one confirmed for the coming weeks. It is about the Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield, which comes less than two years after the company was sold to Salesforce. These two departures are also joined by the CEO of Tableau, Mark Nelson, who announced his resignation on December 1.
According to Business Insider, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield, He will leave the company next January. Butterfield was one of its founders in 2013, after the company that used a precursor to Slack for internal messaging, Glitch, went out of business. It was bought by Salesforce in 2021 for 27.7 billion, keeping the name, its functions and its leadership team. Since the purchase. Slack hasn’t changed much, but with the departure of Butterfield we may see more changes, and the level of integration of Slack with other Salesforce products will increase.
The news of his departure has been given, how could it be otherwise, through a message written by himself in a Slack channel. In the message Butterfield, who is also part of the founding team of Flickr, assures that his departure has nothing to do with Taylor’s, and that they have been preparing his departure for weeks. He will be succeeded by Lidiane Jones, who is currently Vice President and Head of Cloud Digital Experiences at Salesforce.
Salesforce Spokesperson Cheyenne King notes that Butterfield has helped integrate Slack into Salesforce, and has been instrumental in electing Lidiane Jones as Slack’s next CEO. She highlights that she has a lot of experience in technology, both in the consumer and business sectors, and that she has been on the company’s leadership team for three years.
The departures of Taylor and Butterfield follow the one already announced a few days ago, on December 1, of the Tableau CEO Mark Nelson, less than two years after taking the helm of the Salesforce subsidiary. Nelson has already left the company, and there is no replacement planned for him, as his team will join Salesforce’s product and engineering teams.
Nelson joined Tableau in 2018 as Vice President of Product Development. In March 2021, he became its CEO when his predecessor, Adam Selipsky, was named AWS CEO to replace since-Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. Tableau was born in 2003 and went public in 2013. Salesforce bought the company for more than $15 billion in 2019.
