Slack founder Stewart Butterfield, pictured in 2019 when the company debuted on the New York Stock Exchange. Butterfield’s departure from the collaboration platform comes as its parent company, Salesforce, makes several changes at C-Suite level across its portfolio of companies. He’s not the only executive to leave, however, as it was reported (opens in new tab) that Mark Carter, Salesforce’s cyber security executive, is also set to leave although it hasn’t been publicly announced.Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield will leave the company in January, it has been confirmed. His last day is set to be 31 January 2023 where he’ll step down from his current role as well as his vice chair position. 'It’s clear that Salesforce is taking Slack is a direction that is more aligned to extending and enabling their Customer 360 Platform, rather than Slack being a general productivity platform.'Ĭo-CEO Taylor decided to resign from his joint leadership position only a year after taking it on. 'More interesting is also the departure of Slack’s chief of products, Tamar Yehoshua, and head of branding and marketing, Jonathan Prince. 'In various reporting of his resignation, it appears Stewart is leaving for family reasons, but the timing does sting with the departure of Bret Taylor and Tableau CEO Mark Nelson at the same time,' Wong said.

In the other Salesforce acquisitions of MuleSoft and Tableau, incoming CEOs were either removed from their posts, like Greg Schott, or took up a different position, which happened to Adam Selipsky. It would have been more surprising if Butterfield had stayed on in his role for more than two years, said Jason Wong, distinguished VP analyst at Gartner. She also worked as a group product manager at Microsoft for more than 12 years and was vice president of software product management at Sonos for nearly four years. Jones has been at Salesforce for just over three-and-a-half years, working in the commercial cloud arm of the cloud giant. He's built an incredible company that has redefined modern collaboration (opens in new tab) with a team grounded in humility and innovation.” “Simply put, there would be no Slack without Stewart. “Thank you Stewart for what you've built and for trusting me with the most important role of my life,” said incoming CEO Jones.

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