Full Name

Alexandre Dayon

Job Title

Entrepreneur

Company

Speaker Bio

Alexandre Dayon is a French-American entrepreneur with 35 years of experience in enterprise software, both in the United States and France. He was a founding member of startups such as BusinessObjects and InStranet, and played a key executive role in scaling Salesforce from 2008 to 2023. At Salesforce, he led the product group for over 10 years, growing revenue by 20x, before serving as Chief Strategy Officer and Chairman of the Advisory Board—further accelerating Salesforce’s impact at the C-suite level. A recognized thought leader in the AI space, Alex played a pivotal role in shaping the vision and strategy behind Einstein AI, Salesforce’s artificial intelligence platform that brings predictive and generative capabilities into the hands of business users. His contributions helped lay the groundwork for practical, customer-centric AI adoption at scale. Alex is an engineer from CentraleSupélec, holds several patents, and is a Chevalier of the French National Order of Merit.