Docusign, Inc. DOCU Chief Executive

What Allan Thygesen says in public, and what their own SEC filings show they own.

Allan Thygesen

Allan Thygesen

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director · Docusign, Inc.

Chief executive since October 2022, hired out of Google where he was President, Americas & Global Partners running the advertising business, and earlier a managing director and partner in The Carlyle Group's US venture and growth funds. Took over a company whose pandemic growth rate had collapsed and has spent his tenure converting a single-product e-signature vendor into what Docusign calls Intelligent Agreement Management - while buying back stock hard enough to take diluted shares from 215 million in the January 2025 quarter to 196 million in the April 2026 quarter.

What they own

Ownership

Skin in the game
1/ 70
Level 1Steward

Thygesen owns about 0% of Docusign, Inc., worth $10.7M at the last close.

SEC filings
75
Stake 159,038 reported shares ≈ 0.1% of shares outstanding — no 13G on file, so an estimate 4/35
Founder Not assessed — whether they founded the company has not been researched Not assessed
Tenure No start date on record, so tenure scores nothing 0/10
Track record Not assessed — their prior companies have not been researched Not assessed
Direction Sold 118,750 shares ($7.1M) — more than a tenth of the stake — in the last year -10/15
Discipline 2 late Form 4s in 75 filings 7/10

Nobody has researched this person's career yet, so founder and track record are left out of the score and of the total above.

Score = stake band (35) + founder (15) + tenure (10) + track record (15) + 12-month direction (−10…15) + filing discipline (10). An axis we have not researched is left out of the score and of the total it is shown over. Every input links to a filing or to our own research; the bands are ours.

Reported · Forms 3, 4, 5 159,038 Every lot on the person's own filings, as of Jul 1, 2026
Last open-market trade Sale · $1.2M Jul 1, 2026 · 26,250 shares at $46.02 avg · under a 10b5-1 plan
Paper trail 2 late filings Form 4 covering a 2025-07-14 grant or award in DOCUSIGN, INC. was filed 2025-07-17, 3 business days later; Section 16 allows two.
Reported Docusign, Inc. shares Forms 3, 4 and 5 · as of 2026-07-01
050K100K150K200K 2023202420252026 Jul 2026: net −26,250 shares across 1 movement (largest: sale −26,250)Jun 2026: net +33,051 shares across 2 movements (largest: exercise +65,561)Apr 2026: net −26,250 shares across 1 movement (largest: sale −26,250)Mar 2026: net +36,226 shares across 2 movements (largest: exercise +65,560)Jan 2026: net −26,250 shares across 1 movement (largest: sale −26,250)Dec 2025: net +32,265 shares across 2 movements (largest: exercise +65,561)Oct 2025: net −40,000 shares across 1 movement (largest: sale −40,000) 159,038

Dots mark the months the activity below moved the line. Hover one for that month's net move, how many movements it folds and the largest.

How the stake is held
SecurityHeld viaShares
Common StockDirect159,038
Reported as of 2026-07-01159,038
Held directly
100%
Vehicles
None
Last filing
Jul 10, 2026
Activity · last 12 months 10 events folded from 20 filing lines · Every filing on EDGAR ↗
DateTypeWhat happenedSharesPriceValueNote
Jul 1, 2026 Sale Open-market sale across 2 lots, $45.58–$46.11 −26,250 $46.02 avg $1.2M under a 10b5-1 plan
Jun 15, 2026 Exercise Option or RSU conversion +65,561 — —
Jun 15, 2026 Tax Shares withheld for tax −32,510 — —
Apr 1, 2026 Sale Open-market sale across 3 lots, $46.44–$48.12 −26,250 $47.78 avg $1.3M under a 10b5-1 plan
Mar 15, 2026 Exercise Option or RSU conversion +65,560 — —
Mar 15, 2026 Tax Shares withheld for tax −29,334 — —
Jan 9, 2026 Sale Open-market sale across 3 lots, $69.35–$70.83 −26,250 $69.60 avg $1.8M under a 10b5-1 plan
Dec 15, 2025 Exercise Option or RSU conversion +65,561 — —
Dec 15, 2025 Tax Shares withheld for tax −33,296 — —
Oct 1, 2025 Sale Open-market sale across 4 lots, $69.03–$71.65 −40,000 $69.69 avg $2.8M under a 10b5-1 plan
Every issuer Allan Thygesen files as an insider of
CompanyRoleReportedBeneficial% of class
DOCU DOCUSIGN, INC. This page President and CEO 159,038
2026-07-01		 — —
RNG RingCentral, Inc. Director 26,456
2023-06-01		 — —

Reported is every lot on the person's own Forms 3, 4 and 5 — direct and through trusts. Beneficial is the figure stated on the latest Schedule 13D/G cover page, which can exclude shares the person disclaims and include options exercisable within 60 days, so the two are never added together.

Paper trail

75 filings under CIK 0001657309 · captured 2026-09-05 · All filings on EDGAR ↗

On the record with shareholders

Earnings calls

  1. Q2 FY2027 Sep 3, 2026 Thygesen argued that the platform bet has stopped being a promise and started showing up in the mix: IAM is 15.1% of annual recurring revenue against 12.6% three months earlier, and the company raised its full-year ARR guidance on the strength of it. His defence of the position was the corpus rather than the product — more than 300 million documents ingested through IAM's Agreement Manager, all of them private and consented, which he says is what buys accuracy that a general-purpose model working twenty documents at a time cannot reach. On distribution he was deliberately cool: the Slack, Perplexity, Gemini and OpenAI connectors are a way to meet customers where they work, they require an IAM licence, and by his own account they do not yet drive incremental revenue. He also corrected the record on the API share of eSignature volume, saying the company has never claimed 80% and has only ever said more than 50%. The commercial evidence he offered was deal size: the largest deals Docusign has ever done in the U.S. public sector and in LatAm both landed this quarter. Read the call · 6 quotes →
In their own words

Podcasts, interviews & articles

5 recorded appearances

2026

2025

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