Salesforce Ventures has promoted principal Robert Keith to head of Australia, where he will oversee its newly launched Australia Trailblazer Fund.

Robert Keith, principal at customer relationship management (CRM) software provider Salesforce’s corporate venturing arm, Salesforce Ventures, was promoted to head of Australia last month.

The move involved Keith relocating to the unit’s Sydney office and it came as Salesforce Ventures launched the $50m Australia Trailblazer Fund, to invest in Australia-based startups that develop cloud-based enterprise software.

Nine months prior to joining the unit in July 2014, Keith worked on the initial public offering (IPO) for life sciences-focused CRM application…

Edison Fu

Edison Fu is a reporter and Asia liaison at Global Corporate Venturing.