Top Salesforce Influencers You Need To Follow

Mike Gerholdt is the CEO & Founder of ButtonClick Media and is also the

Director of Client Engagement at Red Argyle.

ButtonClickAdmin.com is the absolute best resource for Salesforce Admins as

it provides reviews/summaries of the newest Salesforce features and interviews

with some of the best and brightest in the Salesforce community.

It is rare to find someone with as many certifications as Mike. He is a

Salesforce MVP, certified Salesforce.com Admin, Advanced Admin, Developer,

and Sales Cloud Consultant. At Dreamforce Mike will be speaking at seven

different sessions including the "MVP Throwdown" and "The New Habits of a

Successful Salesforce Admin."

@Mikegerholdt

www.buttonclickadmin.com

Since 2005 Mike has been working on large enterprise Salesforce orgs in a

system admin or developer role. Mike is the creator of some of the most

popular apps on the AppExchange including Field Trip, Draggin' Role, and

Steam Role. In early 2012 Mike joined RingLead as Chief Product Officer and

has overseen the development of AppExchange hits like Dupe Dive, a free

duplicate diagnostic app, and Unique Entry, the only as-you-type duplicate

prevention app for Salesforce.

Mike, now an Advanced Admin and Developer, uses the building blocks of the

Force.com platform to meet complex business requirements with usability,

scalability, and maintainability in mind. He has spoken at more than a dozen

Dreamforce sessions over the past three years and will be speaking at 3

sessions this year.

@Michaelforce

www.michaelforce.org

www.ringlead.com/blog

Shell Black is a consultant who, in 2005, started working with Salesforce and

immediately loved the platform as it allows smaller businesses the tools to

compete with larger scale companies.

ShellBlack.com was founded in 2010 with a goal to help companies get the

most out of their CRM investment by providing Salesforce solutions that match

the way they market and support their customers. Shell became a Salesforce

MVP in 2012 and is certified as a Salesforce.com Administrator, Developer,

and Sales Cloud Consultant. Shell black will be speaking at 3 Dreamforce 2013

sessions

@Shell_Black

www.shellblack.com

Brent Downey is currently the Salesforce.com Administrator at Gates

Corporation, a global industrial manufacturer. Brent worked on a project team

to roll-out Salesforce to Gates' sales team, and was the primary admin on a

number of these projects including North America, South America, Europe and

India.

Brent is the leader of the Denver Salesforce User Group. He also Volunteers

his time and knowledge to non-profits who are leveraging the Force.com

platform.@brentdowney

www.adminhero.com

www.forcebehindthecloud.com

Rebecca first got involved in Salesforce back in 2005 and and has now been a

Dreamforce presenter for the past 4 years. She says, "I first attended

Dreamforce in 2007, but can’t imagine ever missing one again". Rebecca was

among the first 500 certified as a Salesforce Admin and became an Advanced

Admin in 2011. Her other Salesforce achievements include: becoming a

Salesforce Certified Developer in 2009, a Community MVP in 2011, and

receiving a Customer Hero award in 2008, 2009, and 2011

Rebecca recently joined Conga, a very successful AppExchange company, as

a Director of Cloud Technology

@sfdc_nerd

Jarrod Kingston is a Salesforce MVP with over 4 years of experience in the

support, training, and advancement of Salesforce. Jarrod is well versed in all

aspects of Salesforce, holding certifications as a Salesforce Developer,

Administrator, and Sales Cloud Consultant. You may recognize Jarrod from our

Salesforce Admin Hack Series webinars on the case and account object which

he co-hosted with Mike Farrington.

Jarrod works at Appirio, an information technology consulting company, as a

Business Analyst.@Jarrodmichaelwww.cloudskc.wordpress.com

www.youraveragesalesforceadmin.blogspot.com

If you've looked to the Salesforce Community forum for answers in the past,

chances are you've come across Steve Molis a.k.a. SteveMoForce. He is well

known for his contributions to the Salesforce community and is in the MVP 20k

club which means he has given answers to over 20,000 questions!

Steve's other accolades withint the community include: Community MVP,

Salesforce Answers MVP, Salesforce Answers Hall of Fame, and Salesforce

Ideas Hall of Fame. Steve has also spoken at multiple Dreamforce Sessions

sharing his knowledge of formulas, workflows and more. Some of the sessions

he has spoken at are: Salesforce DF'12 Formula Gurus, Become a Formula

Ninja, and Formulas for Dummies.

Steve is currently working as a Salesforce Administrator for Epsilon, which

offers solutions that enable brands to create dynamic, meaningful customer

connections through data and customer knowledge.

@SteveMoForce

Brian Kwong (aka. "the Salesforce wizard") is a Salesforce MVP who currently

works at CPM HealthGrades. Brian is the co-leader of the Wisconsin User

Group and has made numerous Dreamforce presentations.

Brian is quite easily the most active (and humorous) Twitter user in the

Salesforce community

@Mikegerholdt