Steve Corfield is the Head of Global Business Development and Partnerships at 📝Anthropic, where he built the company's enterprise partner ecosystem from near-scratch.
Corfield joined Anthropic from Salesforce, where he served as Executive Vice President of Global Alliances. At Anthropic, he launched the Claude Partner Network with a $100 million commitment for 2026, providing training, technical support, and joint market development for partners deploying Claude in enterprise environments. Major partnerships under his leadership include Accenture (which formed a dedicated Anthropic Business Group and is training 30,000 professionals on Claude), Cognizant (Claude access across 350,000 associates), Infosys (Claude integrated into their agentic AI platform), and Deloitte.
Enterprise market share grew from 24% to 40% in the months following the launch of these partnerships. Corfield has described his vision as building a partner program that serves as a "blueprint for the future" of AI channel ecosystems, drawing on his experience reshaping alliance models at Salesforce. His team is expanding fivefold, adding dedicated Applied AI engineers, technical architects, and localized go-to-market specialists.