Petra Jenner becomes General Manager Switzerland and Eastern Europe at Salesforce
Salesforce Switzerland is repositioning itself for the new financial year. Petra Jenner takes over as General Manager Switzerland with immediate effect from Blaise Roulet, who has been responsible for managing the local market since 2015. Blaise Roulet takes over the role of EMEA Head of Strategic Customers at Salesforce from Switzerland.
Petra Jenner also retains the management of the Eastern Europe region, which she already held in 2020. She has been with Salesforce for five years and held various management positions in Europe, most recently the role of General Manager and Senior Vice President EMEA Emerging Markets.
Prior to joining Salesforce, Jenner spent seven years as a country manager at Microsoft in Austria and at Microsoft in Switzerland. Other stops in her career included Check Point Software, Informix Software, and Sybase. She brings a total of more than 25 years of experience in the technology industry.
Blaise Roulet has been instrumental in expanding Salesforce's business in Switzerland over the past six years, according to a company statement. Before joining Salesforce, he had founded the consulting firm Salesconquest, which became the primary Salesforce partner in Switzerland and which Blaise Roulet then sold to Isobar/Dentsu. In the future, he will also contribute his founder know-how in an additional function in the private equity area at Salesforce.
