EchoSign Management
EchoSign was founded in 2005 by a veteran team including two entrepreneurial attorneys who saw an opportunity to use the web to finally automate the painful contract signature process.
They sought out to finally deliver the benefits of electronic signatures and e-contracting to the masses, through a 100% web-based service that would be fully legal, secure and compliant — but also incredibly easy to use, leveraging the best principles of Web 2.0.
EchoSign has since gone on to rapidly grow to become the web’s #1 electronic signature service, with over 14,000 customers and 1,000,000 users across the globe, from Australia to South Africa, from Canada and Mexico to the United Kingdom, spanning all the way from the Fortune 500 to small and medium businesses of every size and kind.
Jason Lemkin, CEO
Jason Lemkin is CEO and co-founder of EchoSign. His operational experience spans the business development, sales, legal, human resource, and finance fields. Lemkin previously was an EIR at Storm Ventures and served as President, Chief Business Officer, and co-founder of NanoGram Devices, a nanotechnology pioneer that is now a subsidiary of Greatbatch, Inc. He previously served as Vice President, Corporate Development at NeoPhotonics Corporation; and as Senior Director of Corporate Development at BabyCenter.com, the leading internet company in its category and now a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson.
Lemkin also served as corporate counsel to leading technology companies at Venture Law Group, and as a management consultant at Pathway Ventures. He holds a B.A., Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University; a J.D., Order of the Coif, from U.C. Berkeley; and completed the Stanford Graduate School of Business’ Executive Management Program.
Dan Foygel, CTO
Dan Foygel has over a decade of experience building massively scalable software platforms. Before joining EchoSign, Foygel was a Senior Engineer at Carbon Five, a boutique Java development firm serving the financial services and other industries. Previously, he served as Director of Customer Engineering at enterprise software company Lithium Technologies; as Software Architect at Ofoto/Kodak; and as a Software Engineer at Coolsavings.com. Foygel holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an M.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.
Eran Aloni, Head of Products
Eran Aloni has over 15 years of experience building mission critical web and software services. He has served as VP, Product Marketing at SaaS project management solution Clarizen; Associate Vice President and General Manager at Comverse, developing unified messaging solutions; and at Microsoft. He holds a Masters and Bachelor’s in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University.
Brendon Cassidy, Head of Sales
Brendon Cassidy has dramatically grown the sales trajectories of several web and software leaders. Prior to EchoSign, he served as Director of Corporate Sales at LinkedIn; Director of Western Sales at The Ladders.com; and Director of Sales at Spoke Software. He holds a BA from St. Mary’s College.
Loretta Jones, Head of Marketing
Loretta Jones has over 15 years of management experience in direct and product marketing. Her career spans roles at Lotus, Crossworlds Software, and Coveo, where she has successfully grown marketing programs for both SMBs and enterprise customers. She has managed EchoSign’s marketing functions since inception. She holds a BA from Brown University.
EchoSign Investors
Storm Ventures
Storm Ventures, with over $500m under management, distinguishes itself by the deep operational experience of its general and limited partners, which include CEOs, COOs, CFOs, General Counsels, SVPs of HR — over 100 senior executives in total — who have had successful careers in technology companies including Cisco, Intel, JDS Uniphase, Ciena, and Juniper Networks.
Emergence Capital
Emergence Capital, with over $350m under management, invests exclusively in leaders in on-demand software and software-as-a-service. Their investments include leaders (and EchoSign customers) such as Salesforce.com, Successfactors, Intacct, InsideView and Genius.
Orrick
Orrick Herrington is one of the nation’s leading corporate law firms with over 850 lawyers in 16 offices worldwide.
Additional Investors
EchoSign’s additional investors further complement its customers and its value proposition in the enterprise: Steve Hansen, served as CEO of enterprise storage company Avamar Technologies (acquired by EMC); COO of GeoCities through its acquisition by Yahoo!; as SVP and CFO for Universal Studios; and as a partner at KPMG. Merced Partners’ team co-founded Merced Systems, one of the leading performance management software companies, as well as internet leaders BabyCenter, Inc. and Consumer Health Interactive.