Salesforce has appointed Virginia Sharma as Chief Marketing Officer, Missionforce, where she will lead the company’s global public sector marketing team across product and field marketing.
Based in McLean, Virginia, Sharma brings extensive experience in brand strategy, product marketing, demand generation and technology marketing. She joins Salesforce after a leadership stint at Google Public Sector.
Before Salesforce, Sharma served as Head of Brand and Product Marketing at Google Public Sector from January 2024 to September 2026. She led integrated marketing initiatives covering brand advertising, the public sector blog, social media and content-led campaigns for Cloud, Workspace and AI.
Earlier, she was Head of Marketing at Google Cloud India from March 2022 to January 2024. In that role, she oversaw brand, demand and developer marketing for Google Cloud and Google Workspace in India, with demand generation spanning direct and partner channels.
Sharma previously served as Vice President, Brand Solutions, at JioSaavn from May 2020 to January 2022. She held profit and loss responsibility and worked on driving adoption of advertising solutions among brands while managing agency and client relationships.
Before JioSaavn, Sharma spent nearly six years at LinkedIn in marketing and sales leadership roles. As Sales Director, Marketing Solutions, from April 2016 to April 2020, she led a sales team across three locations in India and worked with cross-functional teams.
She earlier served as Marketing Director, Talent Solutions, Asia Pacific, at LinkedIn from June 2014 to March 2016, based in Singapore.
Alongside her corporate career, Sharma has served as an Independent Board Director at Pennar Industries since November 2022.
With experience spanning technology, cloud, public sector, digital platforms and advertising, Sharma brings a broad marketing background to her new leadership role at Salesforce.
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