Mike Kreaden
Retired Managing Director at Salesforce Incubator
Truckee, California
Overview
Work Experience
Ski Instructor
2024 - Current
Advisory Board Member
2024
Ski Instructor
2023
Achieve Tahoe provides year-round outdoor recreation activities for people with cognitive, sensory, and physical disabilities. We can serve just about anyone with any disability. We focus on health, confidence, and independence so that the experience people have with us is long-lasting and carries over into other areas of their life.
LP/Angel Partner
2021
Looking for early-stage Enterprise startups that can utilize the power of key advisors and capital from a community of notable founders, executives and angel investors with legacy ties to Salesforce
Firsthand.vc is an inception stage VC investing in autonomous B2B software across industries.
Advisory Board Member
2022
Cadalys works with the newest leading-edge Salesforce® technology to deliver superior solutions to its customers and clients.
Member Board Of Directors
2018
Workforce development program for mothers returning to work. Opening up doors in tech for moms who want to transition to tech careers.
Mom Relaunch provides support to mothers returning to work after taking a career break.
LP/Angel Partner
2023 - 2024
Seed capital and advising for early stage CRM and Sales-tech companies
Advisory Board Member
2022 - 2023
Managing Director, Salesforce Incubator (Accelerate)
2016 - 2022
Managing Director for the Salesforce Incubator (Accelerate). Helping the next generation of Enterprise Software companies do great things. Innovation is our fuel, execution excellence is our oxygen.
Sr. Director, Startup Relations
2014 - 2016
Bringing together all of Salesforce's resources to help enterprise startups build great companies. Focusing on early stage enterprise software companies and entrepreneurs. Developing programs to accelerate the growth of successful business app startups.
Sr. Director, Partner Success Programs
2011 - 2014
Development and management of our ISV enablement programs throughout the partner lifecycle. Define what it takes to succeed as a Salesforce.com ISV and provide the required resources to scale these programs to meet the needs of the thousands of partners in our vibrant ecosystem.
Sr. Director, Strategic ISV Alliances
2008 - 2011
Helped our early OEM partners leverage the Salesforce Platform and ecosystem to deliver their service and build thriving SaaS businesses. Accounts included Financialforce, Xactly, ServiceMax, BigMachines and VMWare.
Sabbatical
2008 - 2008
Personal time off after 6 years at Salesforce
Managing Director, AppExchange Incubator
2006 - 2008
Developed Incubator concept, planning, execution. Worked with 37 companies to further their SaaS development strategies with Salesforce.com and the adoption of PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service).
Director, AppExchange Technical Evangelism
2005 - 2005
+ Founded and managed team of technical resources to initially seed the AppExchange marketplace. Assisted ISVs in architecting applications for publishing to the AppExchange. + Developed and launched AppExchange Certification Program to review apps (for security, compliance) published to the AppExchange.
Director, Product Management
2002 - 2005
+ Product Manager, Salesforce.com API v1.x + Program Manager, Sforce (our first branded platform offering, launched in 2003) + Product Manager, Developer Edition (launched DE with Sforce) + Product Manager, On Demand Marketplace (predecessor to the AppExchange)
Salesforce is a cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management software and applications.
Raised $65,375,124.00 from Starboard Value.
Member Board Of Directors
2013 - 2019
Local running club in Silicon Valley. Webmaster, Race Director for 2016 Stevens Creek Striders Trail Races. Visit www.stevenscreekstriders.com for more information.
Education
B.Eng.
1982 - 1987
Corporate Governance (Certificate)
2021 - 2022
Continuing Studies
2006 - 2013