 Brad Burns |
Brad Burns, senior VP-corporate communications at AT&T Communications, has joined Salesforce as chief communications officer.
He'll lead PR, employee communications, reputation management, social media, messaging, content and executive visibility for the San Francisco-based customer relationship management platform company.
Burns, who began his career in Ogilvy PR's Washington office, headed communications for MCI Communications and served as senior VP-corporate communications at AOL co-founder Steve Case's Revolution LLC.
He reports to Marc Benioff, Salesforce chairman/co-founder.
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