Salesforce’s chief financial officer, Amy Weaver, recalls reading reports from analysts published after the software giant last year named Weaver, then its most senior lawyer, to succeed its longtime CFO.

“A couple of [them] very nicely said, ‘Untraditional or unconventional.’ One finally said, ‘Inspired,’ and I decided I was going to go with that,” she said in an interview for The Information’s Women in Tech, Media and Finance Summit. “I definitely do not have the traditional background for most CFOs.”