Salesforce Chairman & Co-CEO Marc Benioff speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019 at Moscone Convention Center on October 03, 2019 in San Francisco, California.
  • Salesforce quietly released diversity executive Jacalyn Chapman in May, sources tell Insider.
  • The company told some employees Chapman's role was being eliminated, one of the people said.
  • Salesforce is facing a discrimination lawsuit from another diversity executive.

Salesforce terminated the employment of a popular diversity, equity, and inclusion executive in May, people familiar with the matter told Insider. The people asked not to be identified discussing sensitive matters.