Sassoon Grigorian

As Senior Director of Government Affairs & Public Policy, APAC & Japan at Salesforce, Sassoon is responsible for matters involving government affairs and public policy, and works with Salesforce's public sector customers. Sassoon has previously worked for Fortune 500 companies: Microsoft; eBay and PayPal.

Sassoon has worked in the NSW State Government as an adviser to a former NSW Premier. He has served on numerous industry boards and associations including being co-founder of the Digital Policy Group, Australia's leading group on digital policy matters. He is also co-founder of Remitt, a fintech start-up.

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Aug 12, 2016 By Sassoon Grigorian

Data analytics to inform Government according to Ian Oppermann

Salesforce Australia hosted its second Government Speaker Series event recently, welcoming CEO of the NSW Data Analytics Centre, Ian Oppermann. This event discussed how data analytics could facilitate better data sharing between government agencies and inform decision making. ... Read More

Innovation, Analytics

Jun 09, 2016 By Sassoon Grigorian

Minister Dominello Addresses Salesforce

Salesforce ANZ hosted its inaugural Government Speaker Series on 7 June 2016 with NSW Minister for Innovation and Better Regulation, Victor Dominello. ... Read More

Innovation, News

Apr 05, 2016 By Sassoon Grigorian

Salesforce Backs New Entrepreneur Visa

From this November, Australia may be granting visas to the next Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Steve Jobs or Marc Benioff under the new Entrepreneur Visa, announced as part of the National Innovation and Science Agenda. ... Read More

Innovation

Mar 02, 2016 By Sassoon Grigorian

Salesforce participates in Australia US Business Week

Innovation was one of the key areas for focus at Australia US Business Week (AUSBW) events in San Francisco last week. Around 240 Australian companies took part in AUSBW. ... Read More

Innovation, News

Dec 03, 2015 By Sassoon Grigorian

Data Revolution Underpinning NSW Government ICT Strategy

A summary of the NSW government latest update on their ICT strategy. Data was one of the key areas of focus. The Australian government has rapidly increased the data sets – a tenfold increase to over 5000 data sets (since 2013)... Read More

News, Leadership

Salesforce and Government align on innovation

Nov 23, 2015 By Sassoon Grigorian

Salesforce and Australian Government Align on Innovation

Vivek Kundra, Executive Vice President, Salesforce, and former United States Chief Information Officer visited Australia last week and met with QLD premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, Victor Dominello, NSW Minister for Innovation and Better Regulation and many others to talk about sparking innovation... Read More

Leadership

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Sassoon Grigorian

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Salesforce participates in Australia US Business Week

Data Revolution Underpinning NSW Government ICT Strategy

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