Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff CREDIT: AP/Paul Sakuma Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, has launched a companywide program called Women’s Surge that aims to eliminate any pay disparities between male and female workers, hire and promote more women, and make sure they are better included in meetings. Benioff told the Huffington Post that to close the gender wage gap among his employees, he is examining the salaries of all 16,000 of them.