Greg Bateman, Regional Vice President of Defense at Salesforce

Greg Bateman is the regional vice president of defense at software company Salesforce and is a Potomac Officers Club member. He is an expert in technology support services and has supported various defense and federal agencies.

Bateman oversees Salesforce’s business for the Department of Defense’s Fourth Estate. The Fourth Estate is the collective term for Pentagon agencies that are not part of the military, intelligence community or combatant commands. Examples of Fourth Estate agencies include the Defense Information Systems Agency, the Defense Health Agency and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Bateman has been with Salesforce since March, according to his LinkedIn profile.

He was the director of go-to-market at Pegasystems’ justice and public safety business unit before assuming his current role. He oversaw strategy and execution of go-to-market strategies with system integrators and independent software vendors.

The industry veteran also handled multiple leadership roles at the computer company Microsoft, where he worked for nearly 23 years. Positions that Bateman held at Microsoft include managing director for the federal sector, director of joint defense agencies and strategic account executive for U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps programs.

He started working in the industry sector in 1995 as a direct sales representative at the software company Oracle.

Bateman holds a master’s degree in finance from the University of Maryland and a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Rhodes College. He also holds a license for Microsoft Azure Fundamentals and is a certified Amazon Web Services cloud practitioner.

Salesforce is a cloud-based software company that offers customer resource management platforms to customers in different sectors. It is headquartered in San Francisco and has multiple offices within and outside the U.S.