Roderick Bremby
Regional Vice President, Digital Transformation - GTM Global Public Sector, Salesforce
Rod Bremby leads the enterprise positioning and solution strategy team for the Global Public Sector. His primary SME focus is in the Health and Human Services (HHS), Social Services, and Public Health markets.
Bremby joined Salesforce in 2019 after a 30-year public sector career. From 2003 – 2019, he served as a Cabinet member for 4 Governors while leading two health and human service agencies. Rod led Connecticut’s leading health and human service agency ($8.2B with 1,986 authorized positions) for eight years in service to over 1 million residents. Rod led the agency through an innovative Medicaid transformation resulting in a national best per member per month cost reduction, avoiding an estimated $2.25B in program costs while adding 220,000 additional members. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) application processing timeliness improved 57% between 2011 and 2016, 2017 (last nationally to 3rd best).
Before coming to Connecticut, Rod was Secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, the state’s largest and most complex regulatory agency. As Secretary, Rod became the first U.S. public official to deny a coal-fired energy plant operating permit due to climate change. The agency also led the Kansas response to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.
Rod completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Kansas (KU). He earned his MPA from KU’s Edwin O Stene Master’s Program in Public Administration, the nation’s top-ranked city manager’s program. He has received the following recognition: American Public Human Service Association 2017 State Member of the Year; Sierra Club’s 2011 Distinguished Achievement Award; the 2010 Kansas Public Health Association President’s Award; the 2009 Kansas Natural Resource Council Environmental Action Award; the 2008 Kansas Public Administrator of the Year, and the 2008 Edwin O. Stene Award for Managerial Excellence.
While he resides with his wife Janet just outside of New Haven, CT, along the shore of Long Island Sound, they enjoy traveling to visit their adult children and grandchildren.Janet and Rod have a blended family of 7 children and ten grandchildren living in Arizona, Kansas, New York, and Texas.
Rod Bremby leads the enterprise positioning and solution strategy team for the Global Public Sector. His primary SME focus is in the Health and Human Services (HHS), Social Services, and Public Health markets.
Bremby joined Salesforce in 2019 after a 30-year public sector career. From 2003 – 2019, he served as a Cabinet member for 4 Governors while leading two health and human service agencies. Rod led Connecticut’s leading health and human service agency ($8.2B with 1,986 authorized positions) for eight years in service to over 1 million residents. Rod led the agency through an innovative Medicaid transformation resulting in a national best per member per month cost reduction, avoiding an estimated $2.25B in program costs while adding 220,000 additional members. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) application processing timeliness improved 57% between 2011 and 2016, 2017 (last nationally to 3rd best).
Before coming to Connecticut, Rod was Secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, the state’s largest and most complex regulatory agency. As Secretary, Rod became the first U.S. public official to deny a coal-fired energy plant operating permit due to climate change. The agency also led the Kansas response to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.
Rod completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Kansas (KU). He earned his MPA from KU’s Edwin O Stene Master’s Program in Public Administration, the nation’s top-ranked city manager’s program. He has received the following recognition: American Public Human Service Association 2017 State Member of the Year; Sierra Club’s 2011 Distinguished Achievement Award; the 2010 Kansas Public Health Association President’s Award; the 2009 Kansas Natural Resource Council Environmental Action Award; the 2008 Kansas Public Administrator of the Year, and the 2008 Edwin O. Stene Award for Managerial Excellence.
While he resides with his wife Janet just outside of New Haven, CT, along the shore of Long Island Sound, they enjoy traveling to visit their adult children and grandchildren.Janet and Rod have a blended family of 7 children and ten grandchildren living in Arizona, Kansas, New York, and Texas.
