Naresh Kumar

Naresh is part of the Strategic Sourcing team at Salesforce, leading the Public Cloud category. Salesforce is the world’s #1 Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform offering cloud-based applications for sales, service, marketing, and more that don’t require IT experts to set up or manage — simply log in and start connecting to customers in a whole new way.

He leads the Public Cloud sourcing team working closely with the suppliers to ensure Salesforce has a full spectrum of legal, security and data protection terms in place along with best in class pricing. He's been building business processes that maximize contract compliance and optimize spend while enabling business users and engineers to use Public Cloud effectively. Naresh has been blazing the Public Cloud trail at Salesforce for the last 6 years, collaborating with every team with touchpoints to "IaaS/PaaS" including Tech & Prod, Corp IT, Finance, Strategic Alliances, and Sales. 

Prior to joining Salesforce, Naresh was a consultant at Infosys, where he helped multiple fortune-500 clients transform their Sourcing & Procurement operations. He has a passion for technology and a wide range of expertise in the public cloud and managed-hosting category as well as a deep understanding of the complex & evolving business processes.