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Vivek Kundra Joins Salesforce.com as EVP

Vivek Kundra an Indian American joined Salesforce.com as Executive Vice President of emerging markets in January. Salesforce.com is a global enterprise software company which is best known for its customer relationship management.

Kundra was appointed as the first CIO of the United States, by the Obama administration in March 2009.His responsibilities as the CIO included adopting game-changing cloud computing technologies, empowering the cyber security posture of the nation and introducing an open government movement.

Kundra was successful in managing more than $80 billion technology investments. In June, last year he quit his job so as to take a fellowship at Harvard University.

Earlier, Kundra served as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the District of Columbia and assistant secretary of commerce and technology, Virginia.

Kundra completed his graduation in psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park and post graduation in Information Technology from the University of Maryland University College.