People Type: Our Team

Emily is a principal at Salesforce Ventures focused on AI/ML in addition to spending time across developer tooling, cybersecurity, vertical SaaS, and health tech. She joined Salesforce Ventures in the spring of 2022 and recently helped launch its $500M Generative AI fund and led several investments in the fund, including Hugging Face, RunwayML, Anthropic, Cohere,

John Somorjai is President of Salesforce Ventures. John helped found Salesforce Ventures in 2009 and since then the team has invested more than $5 billion in 400 companies from seed to IPO. Some of these investments include Auth0, BetterUp, Databricks, DocuSign, Guild Education, nCino, Snowflake, Snyk, Stripe, Vlocity, and Zoom. In addition, since 2005, John

Olivia joined Salesforce Ventures in 2019. Her role on the Operations team encompasses analytics, research, and process. She manages key performance indicators and analytics for the portfolio, performs sector-specific research, and has built out many workflows and cross-functional processes that keep the group running smoothly. Olivia joined Salesforce Ventures following several years in consulting. She

Zak Kokosa is a Senior Associate at Salesforce Ventures on the investment team. He joined in 2020 following a three-year stint in investment banking, where he was split between New York and San Francisco, and focused on mid-market M&A. Since joining Salesforce Ventures, Zak has spent much of his time across application software, data, infrastructure

Trista leads events for Salesforce Ventures’ global events program, where her team hosts 20+ events annually for the Salesforce Ventures brand and portfolio, including flagship events such as Elevate, Cloud 100, Cloud Gives Back, Founder Summit, and Salesforce Ventures’ presence at Dreamforce. Prior to joining Salesforce Ventures, Trista was on the Dreamforce production team helping

Sarah joined Salesforce in 2017 and the Salesforce Ventures Operations team in 2021. She leads financial reporting and accounting for Salesforce Ventures, where she focuses on supporting the growth of the portfolio. Before joining Salesforce Ventures, Sarah spent four years on the corporate Finance & Strategy team at Salesforce focusing on the long-range financial plan.

Rob Keith is a Partner at Salesforce Ventures, which he joined in 2014 to focus on early-stage to growth-stage investments in Vertical SaaS, Security, and AI / ML companies. In 2019, Rob relocated to Sydney to help launch Salesforce Ventures’ Australian and broader APAC investment arm. After moving back to the US in 2021, Rob

Paul is Managing Partner at Salesforce Ventures. Paul focuses on application and infrastructure software investments across all stages. He is currently a board observer or actively involved with our investments in Airbyte, Anthropic, Astronomer, Databricks, Lyra, Runway, Starburst, Vercel, Vivun and VNDLY (acquired by Workday) Prior to joining Salesforce Ventures, Paul was a partner at

Nowi Kallen is a Managing Director at Salesforce Ventures. He focuses on multi-stage investing in software companies addressing big pain points, particularly in cybersecurity, cloud and data infrastructure, GMT and vertical SaaS. Investments he led include Wiz, ElevenLabs, PointFive, Sixfold, Avalor (acquired by Zscaler), Oleria, and Snyk. He also invested in Contentful, Miro, Gong, Aiven,

Katie Morales provides executive support to Paul Drews, Managing Partner, Salesforce Ventures. Katie takes pride in creating a positive and inspirational working environment and looks forward to taking on new opportunities to expand her skill sets all while continuing with Salesforce Ventures’ mission. She joined Salesforce in August 2018 as an Executive Assistant in the

Kartik Gupta is an investor at Salesforce Ventures, where he focuses on early- to late-stage investments across Europe, Israel, India, and the United States. Kartik has been directly involved with Salesforce’s investments in Snowflake (IPO), Miro, Wiz, Snyk, Darwinbox, Astronomer, Atlan, AppOmni, Elevate Security, Aiven, Razorpay, Yellow.ai, Hashnode, Melio, Wefox, AttackIQ, Bugcrowd, Traction Guest, SurveyMonkey

Katie is a Managing Director at Salesforce Ventures and focuses her time on SaaS and industry-transforming healthcare and fintech companies. She looks for massive markets, mission-critical solutions, and strong teams. She has experience investing at multiple stages, ranging from seed to buyout, and has worked as an operator at early to growth-stage startups. She loves