Docusign officially completed its acquisition of Seattle startup Lexion last week, and several former leaders at Lexion have new roles and titles.
Lexion CEO and co-founder Gaurav Oberoi is now a vice president of product management at Docusign; CTO and co-founder Emad Elwany is a vice president of engineering; and co-founder James Baird is a principal engineer.
Jessica Nguyen, who was chief legal officer at Lexion, is deputy general counsel for AI Innovation and Trust at Docusign.
Docusign last month announced that it was acquiring Lexion for $165 million and planned to integrate the Seattle-based company’s AI-powered contract management technology into its Intelligent Agreement Management Platform.
Lexion, a spinout of the Allen Institute for AI, raised about $36 million since its founding, including a $20 million round in April 2023, after tripling its revenue in 2022. After focusing initially on helping legal departments manage contracts, the company expanded to help people in sales, IT, finance, and HR manage contracts and other documents, such as RFPs and questionnaires.
Other key personnel changes across the Pacific Northwest:
— Seattle-area wireless network company Spectrum Effect hired Shaun McCarthy as president and chief revenue officer. McCarthy was previously president of North America at Nokia, and was a vice president at Cisco. Spectrum Effect, founded in 2015, helps mobile network operators mitigate interference. The company raised $1.9 million last year.
— Shahar Ronen, a longtime product leader based in Seattle, joined SoFi as principal product manager. He previously worked for Plaid, SentiLink, and Remitly.
— Karen Clark Cole is retiring and stepping down as CEO of Blink, the user experience research and design firm she helped start 24 years ago. “I will always remain Blink’s proudest supporter and will be in the background as an advisor through the transition period,” Clark Cole wrote on LinkedIn.
— Karina Martija-Harris stepped down as a program manager at Washington Maritime Blue, a public-private coalition promoting marine-related technologies.
— Garett Ochs, former CEO of robotic food startup Picnic, joined Reflex Robotics as principal R&D mechanical engineer.
— Seattle venture firm Ascend hired Thomas Stahura as an analyst. Stahura previously co-founded Quasi and Pondr.
— Seattle startup vet Zachary Cohn joined food storage startup Tomorrow as director of product. Cohn previously held product leadership roles at Spark Hire and DemandStar.
— Dr. Guillaume Mauger was named director of the Office of the Washington State Climatologist. Mauger is a research scientist at Climate Impacts Group and a longtime climate science researcher.
