Salesforce announced the appointments of Amy Chang, accomplished technology executive, AI entrepreneur, and advisor, and David Kirk, pioneering computer scientist and former NVIDIA chief scientist, to the Salesforce Board of Directors, effective immediately. Amy Chang serves on the Board of Directors for The Walt Disney Company and Procter & Gamble, where she also chairs the Innovation and Technology Committee. She has also served on the boards of Cisco, Informatica, Marqeta, and Splunk.
Previously, Ms. Chang served as EVP and GM of Cisco?s multi-billion dollar Collaboration business ? including videoconferencing, cloud calling, contact center, video devices, and phones ? after the acquisition of her startup Accompany, an AI/ML-based relationship intelligence platform serving Fortune 500 companies.
Prior to Accompany, Ms. Chang spent more than seven years at Google, where she led the teams for Google Analytics, Website Optimizer, Trends, and multichannel attribution, growing Google Analytics to serve over 86% of the entire web. She previously led product strategy for the paid search and affiliates channels at eBay, and worked in the semiconductor and software industries at McKinsey. She started her career in hardware with AMD, Intel, and Motorola.
Ms. Chang serves on the UCSF Hospital Executive Committee, Stanford School of Engineering Dean?s Advisory Board as Chair, and as an advisor to a number of AI applications and infrastructure startups and Google?s Moonshot Factory (X). She holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering with a hardware subspecialty and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering with a network systems subspecialty, both from Stanford University. David B. Kirk is an independent consultant, investor, philanthropist, and advisor, and serves on several nonprofit boards.
More recently, he has focused on computer science education, advancing parallel programming, robotics, and artificial intelligence. Previously, Dr. Kirk served as Chief Scientist and VP of Architecture, and later as a Fellow, at NVIDIA. He has long been known for his contributions to parallel computing, graphics hardware, and graphics algorithm research, and is the inventor or co-inventor of nearly 100 patents in computer graphics and parallel computing hardware and software.
Dr. Kirk received the 2002 Computer Graphics Achievement Award from the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Technology (ACM SIGGRAPH), was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006, and was recognized with Caltech?s Distinguished Alumni Award in 2009. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science with a minor in Computation and Neural Systems and his M.S. in Computer Science from Caltech, as well as B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
