DocuSign has announced no fewer than four new executives across its product, people and legal functions to help lead the agreement automation and eSignature company into a new phase of growth.
The new appointments will gradually join DocuSign over the next few months.
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Effective immediately, Jim Shaughnessy, Workday’s former General Counsel and Senior Advisor for Corporate Affairs, has taken over as the San Francisco-based company’s Chief Legal Officer. Additionally, the company has promoted Jerome Levadoux from SVP and Head of eSigniture products to Chief Product Officer.
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Beginning in June, DocuSign will gain a new Chief People Officer, former Twitter and Bolt Chief HR Officer Jennifer Christie. She replaces Joan Burke who is stepping into a strategic advisor role.
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In July, Inhi Cho Suh will transition from her role on DocuSign's board of directors to become the company’s President of Product and Technology. In this new role, she will lead the newly created Product and Technology group and be responsible for driving innovation across the DocuSign Agreement Cloud.
"Inhi, Jennifer, Jim and Jerome bring world-class leadership experience from companies at scale like IBM, Twitter, Workday and HP, which we're excited to leverage as we move to enable a truly anywhere economy," DocuSign CEO Dan Springer said in a press release.
The four new executives are part of a larger push to fill the company’s top ranks with top talent as it looks to fend off a potential post-COVID-19 slowdown in revenue growth as companies return to in-person deals and pen and paper agreements.
DocuSign is also chasing the goal of $5 billion in total revenue, which means more than doubling its current revenue stream. Earlier this month, the company added Steve Shute to lead its sales engine as President of Worldwide Field Operations.
"As we enter our next phase of growth, it's critical that we build a leadership bench ready to scale with our ambitions," Springer added.
To hit its goals DocuSign will rely on Shute’s veteran leadership. along with new products and features innovated by Levadoux and Suh’s teams, to drive higher demand for its offerings amid companies’ return to office plans.
“As we head into Fiscal [Year] 2023, digital transformation and the need to agree from anywhere remains a high priority for organizations across the globe,” Springer added in the company’s most recent financial report. “As people begin to return to the office, they are not returning to paper. eSignature and the broader Agreement Cloud will only continue to gain prominence in the evolving Anywhere Economy."
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