Salesforce held three meetings with former NDIS and government services minister Stuart Robert at his request, according to documents submitted to a parliamentary inquiry.Salesforce held three meetings with former NDIS and government services minister Stuart Robert at his request, according to documents submitted to a parliamentary inquiry.
Other events were held at Canberra’s Raku in February 2021, estimated to be worth $181 per person, and at Melbourne’s Chancery Lane in August 2022, worth $286 a head. Hill said the extent of undeclared gifts and hospitality benefits raised “serious questions” about the potential for “the inappropriate cultivation of commonwealth officials”.Robert’s interactions with a number of software and consulting companies – including Salesforce – that had contracts with agencies of which he was the minister, have been scrutinised after the NDIS minister, Bill Shorten, announcedThe consulting company in question was Synergy 360.
Salesforce had been a client of Synergy 360, confirming in its parliamentary inquiry submission it had paid a monthly retainer totalling $214,200 over a 24-month period between July 2019 and 2021. Milo had approached Salesforce in May 2019, it said.