“He is a customer-focused innovator with deep experience in e-commerce, the digitalization of business, and leading high-growth scale organizations. Maggie Wilderotter, who has served as interim CEO since Springer’s departure, sees Thygesen as a person with the experience to help the company move forward. Those stock losses, however, are numbers that make boards and investors want to take action, and former CEO Dan Springer, who had been with the company for the previous five years, stepped down in June, likely seeing the writing on the wall. This is a company on a run rate of almost $2.5 billion, certainly the bones of a healthy business. He joins a company that continues to lead the e-signature business, but one where the stock price has taken a significant beating, dropping 80% over the past year and 65% year-to-date.įor the most recent earnings report, the company reported healthy revenue of $622 million, a 22% increase over the prior year. He was in charge of Google’s $100 billion advertising business in the Americas, a rather significant business by any measure, and a position that should prepare him for his new job. Thygesen was most recently at Google where he was president of the Americas and global partners. DocuSign announced today that it has hired Allan Thygesen as its next CEO, effective October 10.