Adam Gross

Director
Adam Gross has served as a member of our board of directors since May 2021. Mr. Gross has served as an advisor to (and has invested in) a variety of technology companies, including software companies such as Cypress.io (a provider of front-end testing tools built for use by developers and quality assurance engineers when testing modern applications), Pantheon (a hosting and WebOps platform through which teams can build, host and manage their websites) and Mattermost (a leading open source collaboration platform), since January 2011. From November 2013 to March 2018, Mr. Gross served in various capacities at Salesforce.com, a cloud-based software company, including most recently as Chief Executive Officer of Heroku, a Salesforce.com subsidiary that provides a platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, run and operate applications entirely in the cloud, and prior to that time, served in various executive marketing and product leadership roles at Salesforce.com. Prior to his time at Salesforce.com, Mr. Gross served as the Chief Executive Officer of Cloudconnect.com, a cloud platform that he co-founded, from January 2012 to November 2013. Prior to his time at Cloudconnect.com, Mr. Gross served in various executive marketing and product leadership roles at Dropbox, a file hosting service, as well as founded certain start-up companies in the technology sector. In addition to his for-profit affiliations, Mr. Gross currently serves as chairman of the board of directors of Democracy Works, Inc., a non-partisan organization dedicated to providing the tools, information and support needed to help Americans vote no matter what, and as a board member of Reboot, a non-profit arts and culture organization.