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Clara Shih
Clara Shih joined salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) in 2006 and is responsible for Social Networking Alliances & Product Strategy, including the company's formal partnership with Facebook. Previously, she was the product line director of AppExchange, salesforce.com's online business applications marketplace, for which she led the development of the Checkout payment services for partner applications.
Independently, Clara is the creator of Faceconnector, the first business application on Facebook. Faceconnector integrates Facebook profiles and friend data into Salesforce CRM. Clara is a frequently invited speaker on social media at global conferences including Web 2.0 Expo, Enterprise 2.0, Toronto TechWeek, and Social Ad Summit. Clara has held positions at Google and Microsoft, and holds degrees in computer science, economics, and internet studies from Stanford and Oxford, where she studied as a Marshall Scholar.