# Bhattacharya had just wrapped up a five-year tenure as the first female head of the SBI.

*business · news · 2026-05-19 · Fortune*

## Key points

- Arundhati Bhattacharya joined Salesforce after being influenced by Marc Benioff's focus on values like equal pay.
- Salesforce’s South Asia headcount grew from 2,500 to over 18,000 since Bhattacharya's appointment in 2020.
- Salesforce’s India entity reported $1.8 billion in sales for the twelve months ending March 2025.
- Agentforce, Salesforce's AI agent platform, now supports voice chat in Tagalog and Bahasa Indonesia.
- Bhattacharya received unconscious-bias training at Salesforce and discovered she herself has unconscious bias.

**Companies:** Salesforce
**Countries:** India, United States, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore

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