DocuSign 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.
“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.”
Seasoned marketing and operational leaders from Atlassian and Google join DocuSign
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.”
SOURCE: PR Newswire