Dan Bognar

Dan Bognar joined Salesforce in April 2012. Dan is currently serving as Senior Vice President Asia Pacific for both its Enterprise and Commercial business units. This encompasses responsibilities across:

• Solution Engineering – consultants who are charged with helping customers meet their cloud computing requirements through salesforce’s Customer Success Platform;
• Cloud Sales – specialist sales resources across Lightning Platform, Einstein Analytics and Quip;
• Industries – Industry go to market strategy and solutions;  and
• Innovation – Digital innovation and transformation.

Dan brings more than 25 years of technology sales, CRM domain expertise, business consulting and management experience to his role at salesforce.  He is a recognised thought leader and is routinely sought after by the media and industry analysts.

Previously he led the Financial Services Industry Business Unit at Oracle across Asia Pacific and Japan for four years. Prior to that, Dan spent six years at Siebel Systems leading their Public Sector and Financial Services solution consulting across Asia Pacific. He also worked for ten years at PwC as a technology consultant, leading technology engagements in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia.

Dan holds a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from the Australian Graduate School of Management, and a Bachelor of Commerce from University of New South Wales. He is also a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Dan currently sits on the Advisory Board for the Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre (OTARC), within La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia.