– USA, CA – DocuSign (NASDAQ: DOCU) today announced the appointment of Allan Thygesen to its Board of Directors as CEO, effective October 10th.
Interim CEO, Maggie Wilderotter will continue serving as Chairman of the Board of Directors.
About Allan Thygesen
Allan Thygesen is joining DocuSign from Google where he served as President, Americas & Global Partners, leading the company’s more than $100 billion advertising business across North and South America. Before this role, he served as the President of Google Marketing Solutions, overseeing the global mid-market and small advertiser business, serving millions of customers worldwide.
“DocuSign has a long history of delivering the most trusted, fully-integrated platform for digital agreements, and I am honored to lead the company in its next great chapter,” said Allan Thygesen. “We have a $50 billion global market opportunity that is largely untapped. I look forward to working with our world-class team to capture that opportunity by growing our diversified customer base across industries and geographies.”
Before joining Google in 2010, Allan Thygesen was a managing director and partner in the U.S. venture and growth funds of The Carlyle Group, where he led investments in startups in sectors including e-commerce, enterprise software, and more. Earlier, Allan served as an executive in several public and private companies, including Wink Communications, Inc., an interactive television technology company. Allan has served on the board of directors of RingCentral, Inc. since October 2015 and as a Lecturer at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business from 2014-2021.
He received a master’s degree in economics from the University of Copenhagen and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he graduated as an Arjay Miller scholar.
About DocuSign
DocuSign helps organizations connect and automate how they navigate their systems of agreement. As part of its industry-leading product lineup, DocuSign offers eSignature, the world’s #1 way to sign electronically on practically any device, from almost anywhere, at any time. Today, over a million customers and more than a billion users in over 180 countries use the DocuSign platform to accelerate the process of doing business and simplify people’s lives.
For more information: https://www.docusign.com/
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