Chuck Dietrich | |
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Education |
MBA in Business BA in Economics |
Alma mater |
University of Colorado (BA) University of Utah (MBA) |
Occupation | Entrepreneur |
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Chuck Dietrich is an American entrepreneur and business executive who is the current CEO of MileIQ. Prior to MileIQ, Dietrich worked at Marc Benioff's Salesforce.com and was the CEO at SlideRocket before facilitating its sale to VMWare and its eventual divestment to ClearSlide. Dietrich is also a public speaker who has lectured and given speeches at events sponsored by Apple Inc., Google, GigaOM, SXSW Festival, Harvard University, and others.
Dietrich holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Colorado and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Utah.
After graduating from the University of Colorado, Dietrich and colleagues built a company that sold to Conair for an undisclosed amount of money. After earning his MBA, Dietrich interned for Marc Benioff at Oracle. Dietrich was one of the early employees that Benioff hired at his San Francisco startup, Salesforce.com, in 2000. Over the course of 9 years at Salesforce, Dietrich worked his way into the position of Vice President and General Manager of Salesforce Mobile. In 2006, he spearheaded the successful acquisition of Sendia, a mobile technology firm. He was also responsible for overseeing Salesforce's partnership for CRM, Force.com, and custom applications while also providing strategic support to mobile carriers and device providers like Nokia, Apple, Motorola, and more. He presented on stage with Steve Jobs at Apple's launch of the AppStore in 2008.