Salesforce Names Denise Dresser CEO of Slack, Replacing Jones

Salesforce Inc. named Denise Dresser as the new chief executive officer of Slack, promoting a longtime internal executive as the third leader for the workplace communications unit in the past year.

“Denise is an incredible business leader who has excelled at every level in her career at Salesforce,” Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said in post on social media site X. Slack is a unit of Salesforce.

Dresser takes the helm at Slack after the previous CEO, Lidiane Jones, who announced earlier this month she was leaving to take up the position at dating app Bumble Inc.

Most recently, Dresser served ...