Ron Hirson
Major: Climate Tech; Minor: Family Time (student in both)- Former CPO DocuSign; Co-founder President Boku; Advisor to Startups (Calendly, Celonis, People.ai, Sonder, FundBox); Board Member
- Role
- Board Member Chair of Audit Committee at Shalom Institute
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Ron Hirson
Ron Hirson is an entrepreneurial executive, investor and advisor with more than two decades of business and product management experience. He’s held leadership roles as either co-founder, or executive management, on two IPO’s and two acquisitions. He most recently served as DocuSign’s (DOCU) Chief Product Officer leading the Product and Customer Experience teams. Prior to DocuSign, he was an Entrepreneur In Residence at Khosla Ventures and Mayfield Fund after serving as Co-Founder and President at Boku (LON:BOKU). During his tenure at Boku he had roles leading Product, Marketing and Business Development. Previously, Ron was Vice President of Product Management at AT & T Interactive where he was responsible for the company’s new and existing advertising products generating $950 million in revenue. Ron joined AT & T via the acquisition of Ingenio where he was Vice President of Product Management. At the first startup he co-founded, The Digs Network, he was CEO and led the company through the acquisition by iDrive. Ron began his career as a management consultant with Price Waterhouse where he focused on ERP software design and implementation. He is an inventor on 90+ issued patents and over one hundred thirty filings. He has been interviewed/quoted or a guest on Bloomberg, Forbes, Fox News, NYT, TechCrunch, Reuters, WSJ, etc. Ron recently ended 7 years of service as a board member of UCSF Ophthalmology Department’s fundraising arm, All May See Foundation, and founded “Alcatraz Swim for Sight” with his wife raising just over $1 Million dollars for vision research. He is also an advisor to startups including Celonis, SigFig, FundBox, Sonder and PasswordBox (acquired by Intel).
Experience
Board Member Chair of Audit Committee
Nov 2023 — Present
Education
UCLA
BA, Geography: Environmental Studies
1991 — 1995
Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Education
Design Thinking/Customer Focused Innovation
2016 — 2016
Skills
- Product Management
- New Business Development
- Business Development
- Start-Ups
- Software Development
- Philanthropy
- Product Design
- Interaction Design
- Program Management
- Strategic Partnerships
- Leadership
- Product Development
- Analytics
- Mobile Devices
- Online Marketing
- Entrepreneurship
- E-Commerce
- Strategy
- Online Advertising
- Mobile Marketing
- Saas
- Management
- Go-to-Market Strategy
- Venture Capital
- Mobile Applications
- Executive Management
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Mobile Payments
- Mobile Commerce
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