- Salesforce UK&I CEO pushes her skilling “mission” across the country
- Salesforce doubles down on UK&I recruitment and upskilling goals
- Jobs could be repatriated back to the UK from abroad
Salesforce’s UK&I CEO has doubled down on her company’s commitment to investing in skills training and upskilling of young people.
With the UK recently seeing a change in Prime Minister, Zahra Bahroloumi was asked in a media roundtable attended by TechRadar Pro what her outlook for the future looked like.
“Irrespective of government, we are committed to, and very active to the skilling of people,” Bahroloumi said, “we’re not stopping, we remain true to our mission, and we remain active and true to our customers, irrespective of government”.
Closing the AI literacy gap
Bahrololoumi has long been a key voice in promoting skills training in the UK, using her company’s influence and scale across the country to push a number of key initiatives.
In June 2026, she outlined the Salesforce’s “incredibly bold” vision for the UK, which includes $6 billion investment committed to the country through 2030, and its role in backing the UK government’s aim to train 10 million UK workers by 2030.
Alongside Bahrololoumi, Paul O’Sullivan, SVP Solution Engineering and Salesforce UKI CTO also looked to outline how Salesforce’s future Trailblazer program is “closing the AI literacy gap”.
O’Sullivan noted how Salesforce is going through “a surge of hiring”, including doubling the size of its forward-deployed engineer team in the UK.
“We are not just looking to attract the best possible talent to come and join Salesforce, we’re also heavily investing in our apprenticeship scheme, doubling down on our graduate opportunities, and aiming to double the size of the team in the next six months,” he noted.
“This is our opportunity to reinvest in the next generation.”
Looking forward, Bahrololoumi was keen to promote the role of the UK in the AI-enabled and augmented future, noting that while the country was, “an empowered market”, there was still potential for more growth.
“We need more talent,” she added, “I feel so confident, and we’ve got the evidence and the proof points that this technology and our platform can work and automate jobs, and augment jobs, and expand human capacity in an organisation effectively.
“But I would like to see more jobs being repatriated from offshore and low-cost locations and jobs being created back in the UK – so I would like to see a stronger drive around automation and repatriation.”
Bahrololoumi gave the example of when there 300 jobs in a low-cost location, outside of the UK – “why can I not create a hundred jobs in the UK and still do 300 plus worth of capacity?”
“That’s something we’re really focused on, because we’ve got the capability to do that now… but I think we’ve got the opportunity now to create jobs in the UK,” she concluded, “we’re on a mission.”
