Robin Washington speaks on stage during the 2019 Watermark Conference for Women Silicon Valley at San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California, on Feb. 22, 2019.
Salesforce on Wednesday said former Gilead Sciences finance chief Robin Washington will join the software maker to become president and chief financial and operating officer. Washington will join Salesforce in March, replacing finance chief Amy Weaver and operating chief Brian Millham, who will retire in May.
In August, Salesforce said Weaver would step down once the company had named a successor. Under Weaver, Salesforce widened its adjusted operating margin earlier than planned after activist investors came in to the stock.
Shares of Salesforce slipped almost 2% in extended trading.
Washington, 62, has been Salesforce’s lead independent director since 2022, after taking a seat on its board in 2013. In 2019, she retired from Gilead and became a director at Alphabet . Washington will remain on Salesforce’s board, and Arnold Donald, the former Carnival CEO who has been on Salesforce’s board since 2023, will become lead independent director, according to a statement.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff praised Washington’s abilities in a post on social media site X.
Salesforce picks Robin Washington to be finance, operating leader
