Seasoned marketing and operational leaders
from Atlassian and Google join DocuSign
SAN
FRANCISCO, Jan. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- DocuSign
(NASDAQ: DOCU) today announced two new executive appointments to
round out the company's leadership team: Robert Chatwani as President & General
Manager, Growth, and Anwar Akram as
Chief Operating Officer. Both will report directly to Chief
Executive Officer Allan Thygesen.
Robert and Anwar each have relevant experience leading at scale in
world class companies and will significantly impact DocuSign's
growth and improvements in operational efficiency.
Seasoned marketing and operational leaders
from Atlassian and Google join DocuSign
"DocuSign is at an exciting inflection point as we push beyond
e-signature leadership to truly enable smarter, easier, trusted
agreement workflows. Over the past year, we've added top talent in
our senior leadership across field operations, product and
technology, human resources and legal." said Allan Thygesen, CEO of DocuSign. "Today, we're
thrilled to be adding two more proven leaders and innovators in
Robert and Anwar to help us drive growth, improve efficiency and
deliver value to our millions of customers around the world as they
navigate their own digital transformations."
Marketing & Growth Organization Under Robert
Chatwani
Robert will lead DocuSign's newly created Marketing
& Growth organization to scale its digital strategy across
marketing, product, technology and sales. Robert will be
responsible for Docusign's product-led growth and execution,
encompassing growth product and engineering teams, related data
analytics, and all marketing and operations teams focused on
digital expansion, demand generation and lead qualification. He
will also lead all CMO functions, including product marketing,
field marketing, communications and public relations, content,
creative and brand strategy.
Robert most recently served as the Chief Marketing Officer at
Atlassian, a SaaS industry leader and pioneer in product led
growth. He oversaw teams across marketing, brand, communications
and data science, and worked with the product organization to help
scale Atlassian's business to nearly $3B in revenue. Prior to Atlassian, Robert served
as Chief Revenue & Marketing Officer for social e-commerce
platform Spring. He also spent more than a decade at eBay, ending
his tenure as CMO of North America
where his teams supported $35 billion
in annual trading volume.
"DocuSign has built a brand synonymous with both simplicity and
trust. I was drawn to DocuSign's position as a category leader, and
a company whose products are loved by its customers. There's also a
strong fit between my consumer and enterprise experience, and the
opportunity to fuel global growth for DocuSign," said Robert Chatwani. "We have an incredible
foundation to build on as we help power digital transformation for
companies throughout the world. I look forward to working with the
talented DocuSign team to capture the vast opportunity ahead."
Strategy & Operations Organization Under Anwar
Akram
As COO, Anwar will bring together strategy and
operations teams from across the company to bolster DocuSign's
ability to operate at scale. As one streamlined team the COO
organization will champion the development of DocuSign's business
strategy, drive transformation of operations, lead companywide and
cross-functional planning, deliver business critical insights using
analytics, and help evolve early-stage ideas into future growth
initiatives. The COO organization will have oversight of
enterprise-wide operational planning and Objectives and Key Results
(OKRs), and will diagnose and deliver process and operational
improvements across DocuSign globally.
Most recently, Anwar spent more than a decade at Google where he
served as VP of Operational Effectiveness leading cross-functional
initiatives to improve operational productivity. These efforts
resulted in improved adoption of best practices, streamlined
procurement, and extended workforce productivity. In addition, his
Google tenure included leadership roles across a wide range of
organizations and business units, including sales, support,
strategy and operations. Prior to Google, Anwar also held executive
and leadership roles at Microsoft and McKinsey & Company.
"Joining DocuSign is a rare opportunity to scale a
market-defining company that has already built an offering that
customers love," said Anwar Akram.
"My early interactions with the DocuSign leadership team have me
energized and inspired about the impact ahead. With plans for
greater international expansion, a more complete CLM offering, and
the introduction of a self-serve customer model, the growth
prospects are exciting and we're only getting started."
For more information on DocuSign, visit www.docusign.com
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.
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