Who Will be Salesforce’s 200th MVP?

Posted on April 5, 2024  (Last modified on December 10, 2024) • 4 min read • 829 words

The Trailblazer Community has been one of the defining strengths of Salesforce for years and an undeniable contributor to the platform’s long term growth and success.

Formed and fostered by a fairly unmatched-elsewhere combination: a talented, helpful, and almost endlessly supportive userbase and an organization that truly celebrates and supports its most generous and helpful users. The celebration of Salesforce MVPs is a great example of that!

And, with this year’s announcements of our new MVPs, renewed MVPs, and MVP Hall of Fame inductees, the number of MVPs (in the current MVP Directory) is 198.

We’re only 2 away from MVP 200!

To put that in perspective. With 20,000,000 people in the Trailblazer Community that means Salesforce MVPs are a super rare 0.001%.

I feel like small percentages sometimes get weirdly hard to comprehend until you flip them, so let’s! To be a Salesforce MVP means to be juuuust above 99.999% in terms of generosity, leadership, helpfulness, expertise. That’s incredible!

Before we speculate on who will take the 200th spot, let’s meet 2024’s newest members!

This Year’s MVPs  

What are Salesforce MVPs? In the words of Salesforce, “Salesforce MVPs are self or community-nominated Trailblazers recognized annually for their product expertise, leadership, and generosity in helping others learn Salesforce and connect to the Trailblazer Community.”

Let’s take a look at the Trailblazers who joined the ranks in 2024!

• Ashvin Bhatt
• Christine Priester
• Emma Keeling
• Frederique Mounier
• Hiroki Iida
• Jeanette Jett
• Jenh Vo
• Justyna Krajewska
• Jyothsna Bitra
• Kate Lessard
• Kathleen Waterworth
• Katka Vokrinkova
• Kuldeep Sharma
• Łukasz Bujło
• Mauricio Alexandre Silva
• Melissa Shepard
• Naoko Eiki
• Neha Nagori
• Obidjon Komiljonov
• Sam Wadhwani
• Steve Simpson
• Thiriyambaga Sarma Sothinathan
• Tony Kirumba
• Yumi Ibrahimzade

This Year’s Renewals  

You have to renew as a Salesforce MVP? Interestingly, Salesforce MVP-ships aren’t guaranteed forever, or renewed automatically. Officially, “Salesforce MVPs are only eligible for renewal if they demonstrate the following throughout the year: continued leadership, expertise, generosity, engagement, and professional presence in both the Trailblazer Community and their local communities.” and that renewed members. “…go through the same evaluation process as the new class”.

Let’s take a look at the Trailblazers who renewed their MVP status in 2024!

• Aaron Crosman
• Akash Mishra
• Aleksandra Radovanovic
• Andre Van Kampen
• Andy Engin Utkan
• Angelica Buffa
• Ankit Tanejo
• Asterisk Loftis
• Barb Dietz
• Ben LaMothe
• Bill Kuehler
• Blanca Leon-Carter
• Cassie Supilowski
• Chris Pifer
• Christine Marshall
• Cyril Louis
• Daniel Stange
• Danielle Laffey
• Dar Veverka
• David Carnes
• Doria Hamelryk
• Eric Praud
• Eric Smith
• Farah Sherif
• Geoffrey Bessereau
• Gian Piere Vallejos Bardales
• Gina Marques
• Gordon Lee
• Jacob Brushafer
• Janet Elliott
• Joey Chan
• Johann Furmann
• Joseph Kubon
• Kannan Narayanan
• Kapil Batra
• Kathleen Lueckeman
• Kristi Brown
• Kristin Hubbard
• Krithika Dharmarajan
• Lara Black
• Lilith Van Biesen
• M Hamza Siddiqui
• Maham Hassan
• Manish Thaduri
• Manoj Nambirajan
• Mariana Mazzeo
• Marilo Meta
• Mateusz Dąbrowski
• Meera Nair
• Melissa Hill Dees
• Michael Grandel
• Michelle Hansen
• Nadina D. Lisbon
• Narender Singh
• Neetu Bansal
• Oleh Mykytyn
• Om Prakash
• Pat McClellan
• Patricio Sapir
• Phaneendra Arigachetta
• Prag Ravichandran Kamalaveni
• Quratulain Tariq
• Rafael Hernandez
• Rebecca Aichholzer
• Robert Sösemann
• Sara Hernandez
• Shibu Abraham
• Skye Tyler
• Swati Taunk
• Takahito Miyamoto
• Terry Miller
• Thierry Trouin
• Thomas Theunen
• Tiffany Spencer
• Todd Halfpenny
• Toni V. Martin
• Vicki Moritz-Henry
• Vickie Jeffery
• Warren Walters
• Zachary Banks
• Zuzanna Jarczynska Thank you for scrolling so far! And congratulations to all our new and renewed Salesforce MVPs!

This Year’s Hall of Fame Inductees  

What is the Salesforce MVP Hall of Fame? Salesforce calls it, “a special community of our most dedicated long-time Salesforce MVPs” and explains that, to be eligible, MVPs need to have renewed their MVP status for 5 years and “have consistently showcased the program’s pillars of expertise, leadership, and generosity”. If you’ve ever been to a Salesforce event (or online space), some of their names and faces will, no doubt, be familiar to you.

Let’s take a look at this year’s new Salesforce MVP Hall of Famers!

• Amanda Beard-Neilson (In Memoriam)
• Amnon Kruvi
• Anna Loughnan
• Barbara Christensen
• Bhavana Singh
• Bill Florio
• Chamil Madusanka
• Charly Prinsloo
• Gemma Blezard (In Memoriam)
• Greg Gifford
• Houssam Saoudy
• Joy Shutters-Helbing
• Judi Sohn
• Kishore B T
• Marisa Hambleton
• Mark Adcock
• Martin Humpolec
• Rupesh Bhatia
• Sandi Nuss Zellner
• Scott Luikart
• Squire Kershner
• Steve Baines
• Tom Hoffman Congratulations to all our new and returning MVPs!

What about Salesforce MVP number 200?  

It looks like we’ll be crowning our 200th Salesforce MVP with the class of 2025! I guess that technically it depends on the number of renewals, but it seems very likely!

Will it be the head of your local user group, the new admin in your office, or how about you?!

Salesforce MVP nominations will open up later this year (typically in Oct/Nov) and that’ll be your chance to submit the people that’ve helped and supported you the most, both on and off the platform.

We will, of course, post when nominations open, so stay tuned here and you won’t miss your chance to toss someone’s hat into the ring! And, in the meantime, feel free to make your siggestions for the 200th Salesforce MVP right here in the comments!

Until next time, keep working hard, smart, and happy.

And we’ll see you in the cloud.