EchoSign Team
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 set 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 35,000 customers and 3,000,000 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 and has been with the company since inception. His operational experience spans the business development, sales, legal, human resource, and finance fields, and he is an acknowledged expert in the field of electronic signatures and electronic contracting.
Prior to EchoSign, Lemkin was part of the early senior team at BabyCenter.com, the leading internet company in its category and now a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. He also co-founded and served as President, Chief Business Officer, NanoGram Devices, a nanotechnology and cleantech pioneer that is now a subsidiary of Greatbatch, Inc. whose technology has gone on to save thousands of lives. He also previously served as Vice President, Corporate Development at NeoPhotonics Corporation, and helped put in place the corporate strategy that led the company from zero revenues to a successful IPO in 2011.
Prior to his operational roles, Lemkin 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 is the CTO and a co-founder of EchoSign and has been with the company since inception. Foygel has over 15 years 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 completed two years of advanced study toward a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University before leaving to join his first start-up.
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.
Arthur Do, Head of Engineering
Arthur Do has over 15 years of experience creating, building and scaling enterprise-grade internet and software platforms. He served as Chief Architect and Co-Founder of Fortify Software, as the company grew from borrowed offices to over $50m in revenue; as CTO of IAC’s new ventures group; as CTO of Kinecta, acquired by Stellant/Oracle; and as lead engineer at NetManage. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford and a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Calfornia at San Diego.
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 Corporate Facts
Date Founded: 2005
Date Launched: January 1, 2006
Financial Size: $10m-$100m in Annual Revenues
Financial Status: Profitable. Previous venture capital investments from Storm Ventures, Emergence Capital, and Orrick Herrington.