Management Team

Mr. Peterson was recruited by DocuSign as CTO and Vice President, Engineering in November 2007 from LexisNexis. From 2000 until 2007 he was Vice President, Product Development for LexisNexis where he was responsible for the Litigation solution line, leading electronic discovery, court eFiling, electronic court record retrieval and case assessment. Peterson's role in helping to create the court eFiling and court record retrieval markets for LexisNexis was substantial. The products for which Peterson was responsible delivered sales of $6 million in 2000, growing to $145 million in 2007.

From 1994 until 2000, Peterson was the Director of Product Development for Primus Knowledge Solutions where he directed 30 technical staff and delivered the 3 major Primus eService Internet solutions. As a member of the management team, Peterson positioned Primus as the leader in the support resolution space and the preferred vendor by the world’s leading technology companies. Primus experienced a successful IPO in 1999 achieving a total market cap of $1.2B.

Prior to Primus, Peterson spent from 1990 to 1994 as a Software Architect and Development Manager at Halliburton Geophysical Services where he designed and implemented the Halliburton Interactive Seismic Processing system. This revolutionary system transformed the traditional batch seismic practice to an interactive, in-filed solution supporting real-time processing and refinement of oil and gas exploration projects.

Prior to Halliburton, Peterson spent from 1985 until 1990 as a Sr. Software Engineer for Sierra Geophysics, Inc., where he developed an architecture independent user interface, system programming and graphic application toolkit supporting oil and gas exploration technology. Sierra Geophysics Inc. supported an acquisition by Halliburton in 1989.

Peterson holds an eMBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.