Salesforce appoints longtime executive Denise Dresser as Slack CEO
Newly appointed Slack CEO Denise Dresser, Rocket Mortgage Chief Marketing Officer Casey Hurbis and Boston Consulting Group Managing Director and Partner Shilpa Sharma speak during Vox Media’s Code Conference in Beverly Hills, California, on Sept. 7, 2022.
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Longtime Salesforce executive Denise Dresser has been appointed CEO of Slack, Salesforce co-founder and chief executive Marc Benioff announced Monday.
Dresser becomes the third CEO of the Salesforce unit since it was acquired by Salesforce in 2020. Her role as CEO is effective immediately, a Salesforce spokesperson told CNBC.
She has been a Salesforce executive for more than 12 years, according to her company biography and LinkedIn profile, most recently as president of accelerated industries. Dresser will take the top job at Slack after its most recent CEO, Lidiane Jones, accepted the chief executive role at dating app Bumble earlier this month. Jones’ new position as Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd’s successor takes effect Jan. 2.
Jones will stay on through the year to assist Dresser with the transition, the spokesperson said.
Dresser thanked both Benioff and Jones in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Monday morning. “It’s an honor to move this work forward,” she wrote.
“Denise is a collaborative technology leader who brings teams together and has inspired me and so many of us with her deep commitment to our values and to our customers and to the spirit of innovation,” Benioff said in his announcement on social media platform X.
Dresser has held several executive positions at Salesforce and serves on the Ad Council’s board of directors. She is a graduate of University of Massachusetts Amherst, and before Salesforce, worked at both Oracle and former Big Five auditor Arthur Andersen.
Slack was acquired by Salesforce for $27.7 billion in a 2020 deal. Since the deal close, numerous senior Salesforce executives have left the company.
Most notably, Slack founder Stewart Butterfield and Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor departed in the span of two weeks in December 2022. Both had joined Salesforce after the companies they founded were acquired. Butterfield’s departure led to Jones’ ascension, and Taylor’s departure came a year after he was promoted to co-CEO of Salesforce alongside founder Benioff. In a message to employees at the time, Butterfield said his departure was unconnected to Taylor’s.
Salesforce shares are up nearly 61% year to date. At the open Monday, shares were well off their 52-week low, set in December 2022, of $126.34.
— CNBC’s Ari Levy and Jordan Novet contributed to this report.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wears the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, as he delivers a speech presenting the new line of smart glasses, during the Meta Connect event at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, U.S., Sept. 17, 2025.
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Meta is acquiring artificial intelligence wearable startup Limitless, the companies said Friday.
“We’re excited that Limitless will be joining Meta to help accelerate our work to build AI-enabled wearables,” a Meta spokesperson said in a statement.
Limitless makes a small, AI-powered pendant that can record conversations and generate summaries.
Limitless CEO Dan Siroker revealed the deal on Friday via a corporate blog post but did not disclose the financial terms.
“Meta recently announced a new vision to bring personal superintelligence to everyone and a key part of that vision is building incredible AI-enabled wearables,” Siroker said in the post and an accompanying video. “We share this vision and we’ll be joining Meta to help bring our shared vision to life.”
The world of AI wearables has been slowly growing this year, but no company has landed a standout product.
Meta’s Ray-Ban smartglasses, which have been a surprise hit, have a sprinkling of AI flavor with the inclusion of the company’s AI digital assistant.
There are several wearable devices available that are similar to Limitless.
Friend offers a pendant-style device, Plaud comes in a small card shape or pill that can be clipped on or worn around your neck or on your wrist, and Bee, which is worn on a wristband and was scooped up by Amazon in July.
Amazon also runs AI through its Alexa+ line of Echo Speakers, while Google‘s Pixel 10 phones have the Gemini assistant built in.
WATCH: Meta is visibly seeing a return on investment from AI.
CNBC’s Chris Eudaily contributed to this report.
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