DocuSign Leadership

Allan Thygesen has served as Chief Executive Officer of DocuSign since October 2022. In his role as CEO, Allan leads employees globally to capture the company's largely untapped $50B market opportunity, as it continues to diversify and delight its more than one million customers and over a billion users.

Most recently Allan served as President, Americas & Global Partners at Google, leading the company’s more than $100 billion advertising business across North and South America. Prior to this role, he served as the President of Google Marketing Solutions, overseeing the global mid-market and small advertiser business, which serves millions of customers worldwide.

Ahead of 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. He has also held executive positions 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 served 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 degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he graduated as an Arjay Miller scholar.

As President of WW Field Operations, Steve is responsible for leading DocuSign’s unified sales and success organization, with a focus on growth and delivering customer impact at scale. Steve brings nearly three decades of experience leading global enterprise sales and success organizations at companies including SAP, IBM and Allscripts. Prior to joining DocuSign, Steve served as the president of Global Sales & GTM for Customer Success at SAP, and was responsible for the largest, most strategic customers and segments as well as SAP’s global partner organization.

Steve also serves as a Board Advisor to Coveo, Project44 and a Board Member of the 2022 Heart of Chicago campaign in affiliation with the American Heart Foundation. He holds an MBA from the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business and is a graduate of the University of Dayton.

Inhi Cho Suh is the President of Product, Technology & Operations for DocuSign. Before joining the DocuSign executive team, Inhi served on the DocuSign board of directors since August 2018.

Prior to joining DocuSign Inhi served as the General Manager of Global Strategic Partnerships at IBM (NYSE: IBM). She previously held other roles at IBM including General Manager of Watson Customer Engagement from January 2018 to January 2020, General Manager for IBM Collaboration Solutions from February 2016 to January 2018, Vice President, Strategy and Business Development from December 2014 to January 2016, and General Manager, Big Data from July 2013 to December 2014. From May 2010 to July 2013, Ms. Suh served as Vice President, Product Management and Strategy, Information Management Software at IBM and as Vice President, Marketing for Information Management Software from December 2007 to May 2010.

Ms. Suh received a B.S. in Biology, History and Women’s Studies from Duke University and a J.D. from North Carolina Central University School of Law.

Appointed CFO in September 2020, Cynthia brings more than 25 years of finance and capital markets experience to DocuSign, with an extensive background in strategy, operations and a deep understanding of enterprise and consumer software.

Prior to the CFO role, Cynthia served as a member of DocuSign’s board and was chair of the audit committee from December 2018 to September 2020. She was also SVP & CFO of Pivotal Software, where she was responsible for leading the global finance and operations teams, including financial planning and analysis, accounting, treasury, corporate development, sales and services operations, investor relations and workplace. Before joining Pivotal, Cynthia led corporate development at Twitter, and before that was a managing director in Morgan Stanley’s technology group.

She holds a B.S. in economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Jim Shaughnessy is Chief Legal Officer for DocuSign where he is responsible for building, leading and overseeing legal affairs, government relations and risk management for the company.

Jim brings over 25 years of experience representing technology companies across public policy and legal affairs. Prior to DocuSign, he spent 10 years at Workday serving in various roles including General Counsel and Senior Advisor for Corporate Affairs where he was responsible for policy and public affairs and the company’s corporate tech-for-good initiatives. Before that, Jim held General Counsel roles at Orbitz, Lenovo, PeopleSoft, and was Deputy General Counsel at Hewlett Packard. He is also a director on the boards of BSA and Wild Aid.

Jim holds a Juris Doctor degree and a master’s degree in public policy from the University of Michigan, as well as a bachelor’s degree from Northern Michigan University.

Jennifer Christie serves as Chief People Officer at DocuSign where she oversees the global human resource function including the company’s diversity and inclusion initiatives, the DocuSign IMPACT Foundation and more. She also plays an active role in the product and go to market strategy for its HR vertical.

Most recently, Jennifer served as Chief People Officer at Bolt, a fintech startup, where she oversaw the HR, Internal Communications, and Real Estate and Workplace teams, and was responsible for Bolt’s Conscious Culture organization focused on transforming corporate culture and defining the future of work. Prior to Bolt, Jennifer was the Chief Human Resources Officer at Twitter where she led the global People as well as the Real Estate and Workplace teams, and worked with the executive team and the board of directors to support the strategic direction of the company.

Jennifer has also held senior roles at American Express including SVP of HR for the Global Consumer Services Group, VP and HR Business Partner for Enterprise Growth Group and Chief Diversity Officer and VP, Global Executive Recruitment. Prior, she was a consultant at a leading executive search firm and also spent two years as a Special Assistant to the President of the United States in the White House Office of Presidential Personnel.

Jennifer is a member of the board of directors for Special Love, a nonprofit organization that supports children with cancer and their families. She received a master’s degree in criminal justice from The George Washington University and a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Shanthi Iyer currently serves as the Chief Information Officer at DocuSign. Prior, Shanthi started at Cisco in 1997 as an Oracle DBA, working across the company in multiple infrastructure, services, commerce, sales and supply chain roles—ultimately becoming the chief data officer and SVP of the Data & Analytics group. Before Cisco, she worked at Applied Materials in Santa Clara and MashreqBank in Dubai.

Iyer has been recognized by the Silicon Valley YWCA Tribute to Women and received multiple leadership awards from the Stevie Awards for Women in Business. She holds a B.S. in Math from the University of Madras and a diploma in Computer Science from the National Institute of Information Technology in Chennai. Shanthi also completed MIT’s Supply Chain Leadership Program and the Executive Data Science Program from Northwestern University.