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Alex Edelstein

Commander · DISC type D
SVP Product Management, Salesforce AI Automation at Salesforce
📍 San Francisco, California, United States

Alex Edelstein is a visionary product leader, recently the SVP at Salesforce where he led the AI Automation and Agentic Orchestration platforms. A Harvard and UC Berkeley Haas graduate, his career includes founding a SaaS crowdsourcing platform and an award-winning real estate development firm. People he has worked with describe him as having creative vision and grit.

Outside of work, Alex is an active startup investor with successful exits like Lyft and DocuSign. He served for eight years on the Board of Kiva, a micro-lending non-profit, and created UnofficialSF. com, a major Salesforce community resource. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and son.

He was once featured on the Bravo reality TV show, "The Millionaire Matchmaker. "

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Experience
34 Years
Current Role
SVP Product Management, Salesforce AI Automation
Job Level
Leadership
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
Personality Overview

How Alex shows up

Strong-Willed
Risk-Taker
Decisive

They like to stay in control of the negotiation or defining of the terms. They put a lot of effort into ensuring personal success. They prefer to move quickly, and expect the same from others.

Priorities

Topics Alex cares about

Agentic Orchestration
His most recent leadership role at Salesforce focused on combining AI agents with deterministic automation, a topic he frequently writes about.
AI-driven Automation
He led Salesforce Flow, one of the world's largest automation platforms, focusing on embedding AI and generative capabilities directly into workflows.
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Career

Work history

8-2017
SVP Product Management, Salesforce AI Automation
Salesforce
5-2013 - 8-2017
Startup Investor
Maginot Technologies
3-2009 - 11-2013
Founder and CEO
Servio
1-2006 - 12-2013
Board of Directors
Kiva Microfunds
8-2003 - 12-2008
Founder and CEO
Gemstone Development
In the press

Media appearances

Interview: Automate to Make Your Users Productive with Alex Edelstein. Featured in Salesforce Admin Blog
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Alex Edelstein, Author. Featured in Salesforce Blog
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Education
1987 - 1991
AB
Harvard University
1997 - 2000
MBA
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

D

Dominance (D)

Dominance (D) reflects how goal and task oriented a person is, and their ability to accomplish results irrespective of how demanding the circumstances might be. Those scoring high tend to be motivated by winning, competition, and success.

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