Person

Adam Gross

Occupation:

Computer Scientist, Tech Entrepreneur, Investor

Board Memberships:

Vimeo, Democracy Works

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Adam Gross is a computer scientist, tech entrepreneur, and investor. He is currently on the board of the video hosting company Vimeo, and is the chairman of the board of the technology-focused left-of-center get-out-the-vote (GOTV) organization Democracy Works.

Career

Adam Gross studied computer science at Carnegie Mellon University in the early 1990s and soon after cofounded a customer data analytics company. He later worked as the vice president of product marketing at Grand Central Communications, a web service network provider. From 2003-2009 he was the vice president of platform and developer marketing at Salesforce, before moving to Dropbox in 2010. In 2013 he cofounded a software company CloudConnect.com, which was later acquired by Salesforce. From 2013 to 2018 he was the CEO of Heroku, a cloud-based platform that is a subsidiary of Salesforce. 0){ let parent=divs[divs.length-1].parentNode; let footer=divs[divs.length-1]; delete divs[divs.length-1]; for (let i=2; i