Awards

The Silicon Valley Leadership Group announced that Keith Krach, current Under Secretary of State and former Chairman and CEO of Ariba and DocuSign, is recipient of the Spirit of Silicon Valley Lifetime Achievement Award.

The Harvard Business School Association of Northern California named Keith Krach its 2019 Business Leader of the Year. Krach was selected in recognition of his transformational leadership and game-changing impact in business, technology, education, and social sectors. Previous honorees include George Schultz, Andy Grove, John Chambers, Bill Hewlett, Dave Packard, Charles Schwab, Walter Haas, Andy Jassy, Robert Mondavi, and Gordon Moore.

Keith Krach, chairman and CEO of DocuSign, The Global Standard for Digital Transaction Management, received an honorary doctorate from Ohio Northern University in Business Administration. He also served as the undergraduate commencement speaker.

Krach’s accomplishments, vision, and mission have inspired us to launch a new Transformational Leader of the Year award, and name him our first recipient. He is the kind of quintessential leader you encounter once in a lifetime, with an unmatched ability to transform his world, the people around him, and himself.

DocuSign, Inc. Chairman and CEO Keith Krach was recognized today among the Dell Founders 50. Dell Founders 50 honors game changing CEOs and their companies poised for disruptive growth.

San Francisco-based DocuSign has experienced spectacular growth since Keith Krach took over as CEO in 2011. The company, which offers an electronic signature platform, has grown from 120 employees to more than 1,500 on Krach’s watch, raising more than $443 million along the way and climbing to a $3 billion valuation.

DocuSign Inc. (DocuSign®) is pleased to announce that Chairman and CEO Keith Krach was recognized for his “dedication, brilliance, creativity and gumption” by Ernst & Young as the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2015 Northern California Region for Cloud Services.

Honored as one of the 50 most powerful people in enterprise tech, Krach has enjoyed a long and successful career as one of the top business leaders in the country.

The Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award is presented to engineering alumni who have distinguished themselves in any field of endeavor that reflects favorably on Purdue University, the engineering profession, or society in general.

Ariba is one of those companies that comes along and creates a sea change in the way businesses and individuals organize themselves or conduct business. Keith Krach Keith Krach , co-founder, chairman and chief executive, is the guy rowing the boat.

For his leadership of Ariba, Inc. Krach was recognized as EY’s 2000 e-Business Award Winner Bay Area Region and 2000 eBusiness National Winner. Ariba helps companies analyze, understand, and manage their corporate spending to achieve increased cost savings and business process efficiency.