Going public
GC examines the boom of cloud-based tech start-ups going public through the eyes of DocuSign chief legal, privacy and compliance officer Reggie Davis, who has overseen the high-profile IPOs of two major tech companies.
Reggie Davis knows what it takes to pull off a large-scale initial public offering (IPO). In 2011, he guided gaming giant Zynga from private to public in what was – at the time – the third-largest tech IPO in Silicon Valley history.
It was his work on that project which put him on the radar of electronic signature provider DocuSign, who since 2012 had made murmurs about an impending public offering. Hired as DocuSign’s chief legal, privacy and compliance officer in 2014, it would be four years before DocuSign saw the NASDAQ, when they rung the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange and officially commenced trading last April.
