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Mike Sabes

Former Head of Corporate Finance & Strategy, Anthropic

Key Expertise
ai investment market strategy; agentic ai best practices; enterprise ai saas disruption

Mike Sabes

Former Head of Corporate Finance & Strategy, Anthropic

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Mike Sabes is currently independent. He was most recently employed at Anthropic as Head of Corporate Finance & Strategy (Aug 2024 - Aug 2025), building out the corporate pillar for Anthropic's growing Finance & Strategy team. Prior to that, he was Senior Director, Strategic Finance, FP&A, and Strategic Procurement at Instacart, and held finance leadership roles at Salesforce, Twitter, and Adobe.

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San Francisco, CA

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English

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Career History

Careers Timeline

Aug 2025 – Current

Consultant — Independent Consultant (Self-Employed)

 

Aug 2024 – Aug 2025

Head of Corporate Finance & Strategy — Anthropic PBC

Building out the corporate pillar for Anthropic's growing Finance & Strategy team.

 

May 2021 – Aug 2024

Senior Director, Strategic Finance, FP&A, and Strategic Procurement — Maplebear Inc. (Instacart)

 

May 2020 – May 2021

Director, Financial Analytics & Strategy for the Customer Success Group — Salesforce, Inc.

Led a small team answering the biggest questions from the President of the Customer Success Group (an 8,000-person organization), including high-growth scenario planning for the professional services P&L.

 

Aug 2017 – May 2020

Director, Finance & Strategy (promoted from Senior Manager) — Salesforce, Inc.

Full P&L strategic finance ownership for the global professional services business, a stand-alone business exceeding $1.3B in annual revenue.

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