“Leadership isn’t a title. It is an array of actions, traits, and values aligned to make a positive difference in people’s lives. Respect. Integrity. Courage. Ambition. Teamwork.”
—Dedication of Krach Leadership Center
“’Keith is a world-class entrepreneur,’ said Mary Meeker, General Partner at KPCB. ‘He has been a pioneer in robotics, e-commerce and digital business. Keith is an especially passionate, visionary and customer-centric team builder and CEO. His efforts in leading DocuSign have been impressive and the company continues to evolve from its core electronic signature product to a leader in digital transaction management.”
—Mary, Meeker, DocuSign Board Member
“Krach has become a category kingmaker, building four game-changing companies from robotics to engineering software to e-commerce to e-signature and digital transaction management. All four companies are considered disruptors, became the clear market leader through category creation, generated significant shareholder value, and chose paper or manual processes as its main competitor.”
—Profile Magazine
“’A single vision is one more than most people will ever produce. Keith Krach is working on the most recent of a long string of them. And unlike so many visionaries, he never fails to make his new conceptions real, and powerfully successful. Fortunately for our university, he deployed those skills on our behalf during six years of leadership on our Board. Purdue has turned out an astonishing list of great business leaders, but if we gave a “Most Admired CEO” award, Keith would have won it a long time ago.”
—Mitch Daniels, President of Purdue University.
“Krach has an uncanny ability to look through current trends, see beyond them into the future, and leverage that vision to transform the way the world works. As the 2000 Forbes piece observed, ‘Ariba is one of those companies that comes along and creates a sea of change in the way businesses and individuals organize themselves or conduct business. Keith Krach… is the guy rowing the boat.’”
—How DocuSign’s Keith Krach Joined the Billionaires’ Club
Selling Power Magazine, June 2017
“The Mission of the DocuSign Impact Foundation is to transform people’s lives by transforming noble causes. It is all about making a difference. A big difference, a little difference, but most of all, a meaningful difference.”
—Keith Krach
“Our Mission in Sigma Chi is to develop values-based leaders committed to the betterment of character, their campus and their community. In essence, this is about one word: Leadership.”
—Keith Krach, 150th Anniversary of Sigma Chi
“Business is global, trust is local
Business is all about trusted relationships
Respect and celebrate the counties cultures and traditions
And never forget, you get one chance to make a first impression”
-Keith Krach
Global Digital Summit – Tokyo, Japan May 2017
“Transformation is all about change. Change is the most powerful word in any language. Without change we don’t develop, prosper or grow. In business, you either change or die. The digital transformation is about increasing the velocity of your company. Speed is the new currency of business. It is not the big that will eat the small. But the fast that will eat the slow.”
—Keith Krach, Hannover, Germany, March 2017
“I have found it helpful to develop a leadership matrix. Take a look around… who are the leaders you admire? What are their strengths? What are their weaknesses? Check-off and replicate what they do well. Cross-off and understand what they do not. I call it the hybrid role model.”
-Keith Krach
“Keith, I know what you are thinking. Why am I doing this? You see, when I moved out from Boston. I was a rookie to Silicon Valley and somebody did it for me. That was Lou Platt, the former CEO of HP. And he told me, the reason why he was doing it was because somebody did it for him. So Keith, I don’t ask for anything in return. I just want you to do it for the next guy.”
—My Mentor, John Chambers
“His final advice to me was, ‘In the business world, having a self-deprecating sense of humor is a superpower that can save you when it seems like there is no way out.”
-Inc. Magazine
“Krach laughs a lot and not infrequently at his own expense. When asked what his first choice for a different career. He responded, stand-up comedian. I tried it one night. I totally bombed.”
-San Francisco Times
Keith Krach is Chairman of the Board of DocuSign, the global standard for Digital Transaction Management (DTM) and eSignature. DocuSign empowers anyone to transact anything, anytime, anywhere, on any device. Securely.
