Vala Afshar is a digital marketing evangelist, author and Twitter storyteller. Currently, he is Chief Digital Evangelist at Salesforce.com.
Formerly, Afshar was the CMO and the Chief Customer Officer for Enterasys Networks, responsible for global marketing and customer service and support operations. An award-winning inventor of social technologies and customer services operations, Afshar is considered a pioneer in cloud computing, social collaboration, business intelligence and customer relationship management (CRM).
Afshar is the author of "The Pursuit of Social Business Excellence," which was published in September 2012. He contributes technology, business and leadership articles to the Huffington Post, INC Magazine, and other publications.
He hosts a weekly video show called “DisrupTV,” inviting Fortune 1000 business executives, startup founders, venture capitalists and tech and media personalities, covering business, technology and leadership topics.