Aneel Bhusri is an enterprise software executive and investor. He is the co-founder and CEO of Workday, Inc., a partner at Greylock Partners, and a member of the board of directors of Intel. Aneel started his technology career in the early 1990s at PeopleSoft, where he served in a variety of senior roles including SVP Product Strategy & Marketing. From 1999 through 2004, Aneel was Vice Chairman of PeopleSoft, serving on the board of directors through the takeover of the company by Oracle in 2004.

Bhusri, who also became familiar with cloud computing companies as a venture capitalist with Greylock Partners, made a suggestion to Duffield over brunch at a Truckee diner that they should start a new software-as-a-service company. Bhusri said he believed “someone is going to do what Salesforce is doing, but for HR and finance.”

The philanthropic Workday Foundation launched after the company’s IPO and was funded with a Workday stock grant. The foundation’s mission is to break “the cycle of poverty” by helping to find jobs for people “who don’t have great access to employment" . The foundation supports groups like the Harlem Children’s Zone, a renowned nonprofit serving the educational needs of poor children in that New York City neighborhood.