Primary Job Title Founding Partner & Managing Director Primary Organization 
Jackson Square Ventures
Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
Investor Type Investor Stage
Website www.jsv.com Facebook View on Facebook LinkedIn View on LinkedIn
Pete is Managing Director & co-founder at San Francisco-based Jackson Square Ventures. He also is Managing Director of Sigma Partners.
He is responsible for JSV & Sigma Partner's investments in DocuSign - board member since 2006, Chair Nom/Gov Committee, led Series A & serves on the board of Seismic Software, is director
& Series A or B lead investor in Mynd, Tala Security, Winmore, MagicBook.ai & Figg, & former investor & board member at Centrify (acquired by Thoma Bravo), Topio (acquired by NetApp), KACE (acquired by Dell), Digital Fuel (acquired by VMWare), & Encover (acquired by SYNNEX).
He is on the Board & served as Chair, 2014-18 of the animal conservation nonprofit WildAid.
Prior to JSV & Sigma, Pete was senior vp & Chief Information Officer of Cisco Systems w/ worldwide responsibility for information technology, internet initiatives & 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, & formed Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group vertical industry marketing organization.
He has been a Board Director of over 20 private & public companies, and has chaired Audit, Compensation, & Nominating/Governance committees.
A graduate of the University of Illinois, Pete lives in San Francisco with his wife.
