Slack will announce a new CEO next week as its current one departs for Bumble, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says in a leaked message

• Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said Monday the company would name a new Slack CEO.
• Slack’s current CEO, Lidiane Jones, is leaving the company at the end of the year. 
• Jones joined Slack in January and is set to take the CEO job at Bumble. 

Salesforce is set to name a new chief executive at Slack next Monday, CEO Marc Benioff wrote to the entire company in a post on the workplace-communications app viewed by Insider.

Lidiane Jones, the current CEO of Slack, is scheduled to leave at the end of the year to take the helm of the dating-app company Bumble.

“Lidiane, this a hugely-deserved achievement for you one of our most incredible executives,” Benioff wrote. “While we will all of course miss you greatly (especially me), I recognize what an amazing opportunity this is for you becoming a public company CEO.”

Jones has been in her current role for less than a year. In January, she took over as CEO from the Slack cofounder Stewart Butterfield, who announced he was leaving the company less than two years after it was acquired by Salesforce for over $27 billion.

The Slack acquisition has been a target of criticism. Earlier this year, a group of influential activist investors, including Elliott Management and Starboard Value, pushed Salesforce to dramatically cut costs and increase its profit margins.

In the past year, Salesforce has laid off 10% of its global workforce, reduced its real-estate portfolio, and disbanded its committee on mergers and acquisitions.

Before succeeding Butterfield, Jones served as an executive vice president and general manager at Salesforce.

She joined Salesforce over four years ago. A tech-industry veteran, she spent a decade in product-management and software-engineering roles at Microsoft and went on to lead software product management at Sonos, a wireless-speaker company.

Jones is set to start at Bumble on January 2.

A Salesforce spokesperson declined to comment.

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