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Alexandra Quie

Alexandra joined the Salesforce Ventures London office in 2021 and works across all stages and sectors to find the best cloud software companies in EMEA. She has worked on investments including Algolia, Contentful, Gong, Monday.com, and Zencity, among others.

Prior to Salesforce Ventures, Alexandra lived in Los Angeles for five years, where she worked as a software investor at K1 Investment Management and in business development at Canyon Partners, a distressed debt hedge fund. She started her career in fixed income in London, working at Bluebay Investment Management. She holds a BA with Honors in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Chinese) from the University of Cambridge. She is an active member of the Global Women in VC group.

Brian James Murphy

Brian joined Salesforce Ventures in 2022. He supports the broader Ventures team by enabling data-driven investing and portfolio development. Brian enjoys the science and art of representing a complex world in numbers.

Before joining Salesforce Ventures, he worked at Two Sigma Investments and Harvard Business School. Brian holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and a master’s degree from Harvard University. He is based in New York City.

Brooke Daniels

Brooke Daniels is a Director of Portfolio Development at Salesforce Ventures, where she leverages her go-to-market expertise to help accelerate the growth of the firm’s portfolio companies. Previously, she held enterprise sales and leadership roles at Salesforce and MuleSoft. Earlier, Brooke was a practice group leader at Intapp, where she led the go-to-market strategy for the revenue practice. Brooke has also held roles as a strategic advisor for Ping, an AI tech start-up, and BMW Financial Services in Munich, Germany.

Brooke holds an Executive MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler business school and a Bachelor of Arts in Communications and German from Winthrop University. Brooke is currently an advisor for the Justice Technology Association. Brooke is deeply involved in diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. She is a member of the steering committee for BLCK VC and the Investment Committee for the Cap Table Coalition and leads Financial Freedom Fridays, a podcast that provides information about how to build generational wealth.

Caroline Fiegel

Caroline invests in early-stage companies reinventing the future of work through the Slack Fund. She believes there is nothing more fundamental to the future of work than ensuring every individual who wants to participate in the workforce has the resources and tools to do so effectively.

Prior to the Slack Fund, Caroline led Product and Go-to-Market Strategy at Quip. She credits much of her framework today to the learnings gained from the mistakes, wins, and people, who informed Quip’s rapid trajectory. Ahead of joining Quip, Caroline worked in investment banking for two years and earned a BBA in Finance from Southern Methodist University. Outside of work, she serves as a non-profit board member and after-school math tutor at Breakthrough San Francisco, which empowers educational experiences for traditionally underrepresented students.

Claudine Emeott

Claudine works at the intersection of tech, investing, and impact. She leads the $150 million Salesforce Ventures Impact Fund, which invests in mission-driven enterprise technology companies in education, workforce development, sustainability, and financial inclusion. Prior to Salesforce, Claudine led social enterprise investments at Kiva, where she also spearheaded a new impact measurement framework. Claudine spent the first half of her career in economic development consulting and has worked in Beijing and Kathmandu.

Claudine serves on the board of the DC-based nonprofit Global Communities, which implements high-impact programs in global development and humanitarian assistance in 35 countries globally. She is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Katherine Delmar Burke School. Claudine is Co-Chair of the San Francisco Harvard Schools Committee and holds a B.A. in East Asian Studies (magna cum laude) from Harvard and a Master’s in Urban Planning from MIT.

Dillon Ferdinandi

Dillon joined Slack in 2016 and co-leads Slack Fund, a $100-million early-stage investment fund. He invests in founders at the Seed and Series A stages — specifically those with novel solutions to challenges people face in all aspects of their working lives, from collaboration and mental health to wellness, coaching, hardware, and more.

Prior to investing, Dillon helped grow Slack’s partner and developer ecosystem and launch Slack across EMEA and APAC. Earlier in his career, Dillon held product and partnership roles at Adobe, Typekit, and Zemanta. Dillon graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a BA in Communications.

Enki Toto

Enki invests in leading technology companies that have a demonstrable impact on their communities and customers. She invests across education technology companies that reduce inequalities in education and lifelong learning; financial technology companies that further financial inclusion, and climate technology companies aimed at mitigating the impacts of climate change.

Prior to Salesforce, Enki worked in PwC’s deals practice as an actuarial associate and on the accounting advisory team helping global companies on their deal structure, workforce restructuring, and financial instruments. Enki also worked in strategic finance at an ed-tech start-up. Enki is based in New York following five years in San Francisco. She graduated from Binghamton University with a dual degree in Mathematics and Accounting.

Jason Spinell

Jason currently leads Slack Fund, a $100-million early-stage investment fund focused on supporting startups that are building and enhancing the future of work.

Previously Jason was the ventures director at Undercurrent, an organizational design and strategic consultancy located in NYC, LA, and the UK. He led Undercurrent’s investment efforts, focusing opportunistically on early-stage companies seeking to promote an “Ever Better Future” and improve industries that had historically lacked digital sophistication. Prior to Undercurrent, Jason was co-founder of Precog (acquired by RichRelevance), a cloud-based data science platform for developers and data scientists, where he led business operations and finance. Jason earned a BA and MBA from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Jessica Bartos

Jess is a Principal with Salesforce Ventures in London covering our investments in EMEA. She specializes in infrastructure & developer tools, AI/ML, the future of work & collaboration, vertical software, data infrastructure, and B2B fintech. Prior to joining Salesforce Ventures, she was an investor with AlbionVC investing in early-stage software businesses in the UK. Jess spent five years as an investment banker with Rothschild & Co advising on tech, media, and telecom M&A in New York and London. She also served as a Presidential Management Fellow in the Obama Administration working on infrastructure financings in emerging markets.

Jess is an American expat and New York to London convert. She earned a BA in history from the University of Pennsylvania (summa cum laude) and an MA in economics from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

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