Salesforce Names Chief Legal Officer Amy Weaver as CFO

“Salesforce.com Inc. is preparing to close what would be its biggest deal ever—and it plans to do so with a new finance chief,” report Nina Trentmann and Mark Maurer in The Wall Street Journal’s CFO Journal.

“San Francisco-based Salesforce, which built a reputation around its customer relationship management software, Tuesday said President and Chief Financial Officer Mark Hawkins intends to retire from his role, effective Jan. 31.”

“The company on Tuesday also confirmed it would buy collaboration platform provider Slack Technologies Inc. in a $27.7 billion transaction.”

“Amy Weaver, president and chief legal officer at Salesforce.com Inc., will become chief financial officer of the company on Feb. 1.”

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