Marc Benioff: 2009 Executive of the Year

Marc Benioff, the brash and loquacious founder and CEO of Salesforce.com has been an extraordinarily effective evangelist for “cloud computing” — the now super-hot technology trend of providing applications and services over the Internet rather than stored on a server. That approach has played straight into the “software-as-a-service” business model that Benioff and Salesforce pioneered a decade...