Pete Solvik

Pete is Managing Director &a; co-founder at San Francisco-based Jackson Square Ventures. He also is Managing Director of Sigma Partners. He is responsible for JSV &a; Sigma Partner's investments in DocuSign - board member since 2006, Chair Nom/Gov Committee, led Series A &a; serves on the board of Seismic Software, is director &a; Series A or B lead investor in Mynd, Tala Security, Winmore, MagicBook.ai &a; Figg, &a; former investor &a; board member at Centrify (acquired by Thoma Bravo), Topio (acquired by NetApp), KACE (acquired by Dell), Digital Fuel (acquired by VMWare), &a; Encover (acquired by SYNNEX). He is on the Board &a; served as Chair, 2014-18 of the animal conservation nonprofit WildAid. Prior to JSV &a; Sigma, Pete was senior vp &a; Chief Information Officer of Cisco Systems w/ worldwide responsibility for information technology, internet initiatives &a; productivity strategy. He managed IT @Cisco for 10 yrs during the company's rapid growth from $300 million to over $25 billion in annual sales, &a; formed Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group vertical industry marketing organization. He has been a Board Director of over 20 private &a; public companies, and has chaired Audit, Compensation, &a; Nominating/Governance committees. A graduate of the University of Illinois, Pete lives in San Francisco with his wife.