Bob Wise, the CEO of Heroku, Salesforce’s cloud platform as a service, has left. A Salesforce spokesperson confirmed the news to TechCrunch in a statement via email.
“Bob Wise has left Salesforce for his next career move,” the spokesperson said. “We appreciate all that Bob has done for Salesforce and Heroku and we wish him well.”
Bob Wise joined Heroku as GM in 2022 from Amazon Web Service, where he was Kubernetes GM and head of the open source program office. He was promoted to CEO in 2023.
Wise’s rise to CEO came over a decade after Salesforce acquired Heroku for $212 million. Under Salesforce — and Wise’s — management, the platform has been faced with a number of challenges, including a significant security intrusion in April 2022 where attackers were able to obtain an access token for a Heroku account that was used for automation purposes
