Salesforce Influencers is a person with the ability to influence potential customers for Salesforce products or services on social media or blogs and help aspirants to make a career in Salesforce. In this list, we are not including Salesforce employees.
Salesforce Influencers To Follow
Let see the Salesforce influencers who actively contribute on social media, Salesforce blogs, Salesforce forums and Salesforce events. If you want to stay up to date about Salesforce then follow below Salesforce Influencers.
1. Don Robins
Don Robins is a Salesforce Technical Educator & Senior Technical Instructor, 10x Salesforce MVP (now Hall of Fame). He is a producer of the Salesforce Play-By-Play series on Pluralsight. Technology Developer Community Leader since 1999, former Director, VP, and President of the Bay Area Association of Database Developers.
2. Gaurav Kheterpal
Gaurav Kheterpal is a Salesforce MVP Hall of Fame, Mulesoft Ambassador, Multi-Cloud Enterprise Architect, Certified Instructor, Founder & CEO – Vanshiv Technologies. He is well known speakers in multiple Salesforce community events.
3. David Liu
David K. Liu is Salesforce MVP Hall of Fame. Creator of SFDC99.com, the most famous Salesforce blog. He is 3 time Dreamforce keynote speaker and community events speaker. He dream Salesforce in Google.
4. Adam Olshansky
Adam is Salesforce Architect at Google who’s extremely passionate about the Salesforce community! He always try to give back as much as he can and teach others the magic of Salesforce. He is Salesforce MVP.
5. Jessica Watson (Murphy)
Jessica Watson (Murphy) is Founder East First Consulting, Co-Founder 100DaysofTrailhead.com and 4x Salesforce MVP.
Jessica Murphy is a Co-Founder of 100DaysofTrailhead, an educational consultancy. 100DaysofTrailhead’s goal is to help individuals and organizations to expand skills in areas included but not limited to administrator, business analyst, developer, architect, consultant, and more.
6. Steve Molis
Steve Molis is Self-Taught Admin, Pseudo-Developer, Salesforce MVP (2010 – Present) and he is Formula Ninja. He always helped community member on success community and he is a community speakers.
7. Jitendra zaa
Jitendra Zaa is Salesforce Certified Technical Architect (CTA). His dedication to the Salesforce community has earned him the prestigious Salesforce MVP title during 2014-2022. Partner with a proven trailblazer in the Salesforce space and experience the difference that comes with exceptional leadership and innovative problem-solving.
Planning to become a Salesforce Architect? Follow him for his blog and Gang of four blog.
8. Daniel Peter
36x certified Salesforce MVP. Bay Area Salesforce Developer Group Leader. Love to live outside of my comfort zone, solving difficult computer and business problems, while helping others to do the same.
He is community group speakers and love to share his knowledge on Slack.
9. Amit Chaudhary
Amit Chaudhary is Sr. Technical Architect, Salesforce MVP HOF, 20X Salesforce Certified and Community event speakers. He is active blogger on Apex hour and AmitSalesforce blog. He helped on developer forum lots of people with more then 1200+ best answers. Follow him for FREE content on Salesforce platform.
He was co founder of Virtual Dreamin and teach more then 30,000+ students free of cost.
10. Francis Pindar
Francis Pindar have spoken at a number of events including Salesforce’s Cloudforce events and Dreamforce in the US. Lead Architect & Technical Architect on many global projects defining technical strategy & technology roadmaps for corporations & architecture teams.
Francis is the co-founder of London’s Calling and has lived and breathed cloud computing for over 13 years and taught many people Salesforce across the world.
11. Tiffany (Lackey) Spencer
Tiffany Spencer is a 7x certified Salesforce.com Professional and Salesforce MVP with over 12 years of experience leading digital transformations for small to large corporations utilizing the Salesforce.com platform. She is the Founder and CEO of Tech Forward Solutions and careers paths to help participants become more marketable, obtain higher-paying jobs and career opportunities.
Tiffany is very active in the community and uses her expertise to mentor high school and college students. She is also the Board Chair of Black Orlando Tech, a non-profit organization committed to accelerating minority economic advancement through tech careers and entrepreneurial endeavors.
12. Eric Dreshfield
Eric Dreshfield is a a “Connector”, a Blogger, a Marketer, a mentor for those new to the Salesforce ecosystem and a Community Advocate. Working in the Salesforce ecosystem since 2009, with experience across multiple industries including transportation, retail, life sciences and more. Able to bridge the gap between technology and the people who rely on it.
Founder of Midwest Dreamin’ and a Salesforce MVP, 2013-2020, now Salesforce MVP Hall of Fame. He is the “Kevin Bacon” of the Salesforce Ecosystem. #EqualityForAll
13. Christine Marshall
Christine Marshall is Salesforce Ben principal Salesforce Evangelist as well as being responsible for Courses and student community. She is creator of several courses including the Salesforce Certified Administrator Course.
She have been a Salesforce MVP since 2020 and speaking at Salesforce events, mentoring, and leading the Bristol Salesforce Admin Group.
14. Rakesh Gupta
Rakesh Gupta is 9x Salesforce MVP, an evangelist with experience in Salesforce as a Developer, Consultant, and Solution Architect. Best known as an automation champion in the Salesforce ecosystem, He has penned over 200+ articles on Salesforce Flow to show how someone can use Salesforce Flow to minimize code usage.
Furthermore, He is a principal team member of a biweekly online webinar, Automation Hour.
15. Ashish Agarwal
Ashish Agarwal is an Independent Salesforce Architect, Trainer & Blogger with 30 Salesforce certifications, 2 APs (Accredited Professional) & 1200+ Trailhead badges.
He is active blog at URL https://www.asagarwal.com.
16. Ben McCarthy
If you are talking about Salesforce influence then Ben McCarthy name should be there. He is founder of Salesforce Ben and person behind the Salesforce ben platform.
Follow him for latest Salesforce news.
17. Jordan Nelson
He is a Sr. Salesforce Consultant @ Simple Salesforce, consulting for both large and small businesses. He mentor aspiring Salesforce admins via my social platforms, newsletter, & DMs.
He send a private Salesforce career growth newsletter to 6,000+ subscribers. He. have built an online audience around Salesforce of 84,000+ followers.
18. Melissa Shepard
Melissa Shepard is a Salesforce Certified Technical Architect & Advisory Consulting Partner possessing 20+ years of experience in Information Technology and Software Development focusing primarily on Salesforce CRM for the past 16+ years.
She is founder of Architect Ohana on Slack https://join.slack.com/t/architectohana/shared_invite/zt-w5twzxuu-0K3ohlBXEOjBACsQoZXllQ.
19. Santanu Boral
Santanu Boral was Top 10 contributor in Salesforce Stackexchange answering 1500+ questions. He is Kolkata Trailblazer Developer Group Leader, Journey2Salesforce Mentor and Dreamforce Speaker.
He is sharing knowledge and technical writing through blogging https://santanuboral.blogspot.com/.
20. Andy Engin Utkan
Andy Engin Utkan is Flow specialist. He is a Salesforce MVP and Principal consultant of process automation. He also also Trailblazer Community Group Leader.
21. Daryl Moon
Daryl Moon is working in the Salesforce environment for 8 years and achieved seven (7) certifications.
He retired from full-time work (Dec 2022) to devote his time to short or part time consultancy projects, developing his online Salesforce training courses at CertifyCRM.com and writing blog articles for Salesforce Ben, KeyNode Solutions and CertifyCRM.com.
22. Melissa Hill Dees
Melissa Hill Dees is Salesforce MVP and 9x Salesforce Certified creating solutions with NGO/EDU and technology to achieve Global Goals.
23. Amit Singh
Salesforce MVP (2020, 2021 & 2022), Salesforce Certified Application Architect, Lighting Champion & Analytics Champion. 21X Salesforce Certified.
Creator of https://www.pantherschools.com/.
24. Om Prakash
Om Prakash is Salesforce MVP and founder of AppyCrown. He is making an impact with knowledge sharing, inspiring, and mentoring fellow learners in our Salesforce Trailblazer Community.
25. Dan Appleman
Dan Appleman is a well known author, software developer and speaker. Currently a Salesforce MVP and the CTO of Full Circle Insights, he is the founder and CEO of Desaware Inc., a course author on Pluralsight, and the author of numerous books and ebooks on various topics (technology and other).
26. Megan Tuano
Megan Tuano is Salesforce consultant and owner of “Megan Tuano” YouTube Channel. Where she provide tips for Salesforce Interview, career and more.
27. Gemma Blezard
Gemma Blezard is founder of The Architech Club & Ladies Be Architects. She is also Salesforce MVP. She has hosted lots of presentations, and has talked at numerous Salesforce and community-led conferences, including various user groups, Dreamforce, Salesforce World Tour London, the Salesforce Partner Forum, French Touch Dreamin’, InspireEast, YeurDreamin and Connected Non-Profit
Gemma established lots of community-based projects. One of them is Ladies Be Architects (which she also founded), a community that encourages the growth of top, diverse talent in the Salesforce architect space. This community created a huge demand for Salesforce architects which continues today. This demand influenced Salesforce to create new certifications and the architect success team, which enables Salesforce architects through more formal content.
Gemma is not between us but she helped lots of people.
28. Stephanie Herrera
Stephanie Herrera is the Founder and Leader of the SalesforceSaturday group, which is open to anyone looking to grow their individual Salesforce skillsets and career within a community environment. 60 Chapters Globally.
She is also leading PepUp Tech and Texas Dreaming Founding Board Member.
29. Michelle Hansen
Michelle Hansen is 3x Salesforce MVP and Golden Hoodie recipient. She is also co host of Automation Hour.
30. Suggest Name??
Please add in comment section who should be our 30th in this list.
Summary
This list we complied from our Twitter handler post and we got lots of response.
Here some of Salesforce employe you should also follow for Salesforce update Jennifer W. Lee, Cheryl Feldman, Susannah Kate Plaisted, Mohith Shrivastava and Aditya Naag Topalli. Let us know if you found any name is missing in this list.
Sanjay Gupta is missing from the list, he is doing really good for community, both fresher and experience
Divya Chauhan is doing tremendous job in community and she is running NGO to teach underprivildged about Salesforce and one of the answer leader on trailhead
Dear Apexhours,
21. Daryl Moon linked-in URL redirecting to 20. Andy Engin Utkan.
please replace the same.
Thank you.
I strongly suggest Guilherme Dornelas as one of the top influencers in the Salesforce community in Brazil. Guilherme Dornelas is the founder and leader of the Salesforce community from the State of Espirito Santo, Brazil and has helped many people with his knowledge and will to help others whenever they need.