Peter Solvik Email Address

Managing Director @Jackson Square Ventures and Sigma Partners, Lead Independent Director @DocuSign, B2B Software Venture Investor

Jackson Square Ventures (JSV) is an all-partner venture capital firm focused on Series A financings for SaaS and marketplace startups from our offices in the heart of the innovation ecosystem in San Francisco at Jackson Square.

Pete is Managing Director at San Francisco based Jackson Square Ventures with offices in San Francisco. He also is a Managing Director of Sigma Partners in funds 6, 7 & 8.He is responsible for JSV and Sigma investments in DocuSign, Centrify, Seismic Software, Lanetix, ScanCafe, MOGL, Topio (acquired by NetApp), KACE Networks (acquired by Dell), Digital Fuel Technologies (acquired by VMWare), and Encover (acquired by SYNNEX).He is Chairman of the Board of the nonprofit WildAid, and previously served as chair of the board of the Athenian School.Prior to JSV and Sigma, Pete was senior vice president & Chief Information Officer of Cisco Systems with worldwide responsibility for information technology, internet initiatives and productivity strategy. He managed IT at Cisco for ten years, during the company's growth from $300 million to over $25 billion in sales, and formed Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group.He has been a Board Director of 20 public and private companies, and has experience as chairing Audit, Compensation, & Nominating & Governance committees.Pete was named to the CIO 100 four times by CIO Magazine, and was chosen as one of 'the 25 most powerful executives in Networking.' He has been quoted in articles in Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, the Economist, the New York Times & CIO Magazine, and has been keynote speaker at over 50 industry conferences on the internet.