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The Ironclad leadership team is made up of experienced and innovative professionals—a diverse crew of former spin instructors, concert cellists, and pickleball enthusiasts.
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The Ironclad leadership team is made up of experienced and innovative professionals—a diverse crew of former spin instructors, concert cellists, and pickleball enthusiasts.
Chief Executive Officer
Dan Springer is Ironclad’s Chief Executive Officer, redefining how businesses manage their contracts. He has more than 25 years of executive leadership experience and won multiple awards for being a most admired CEO. He most recently served as CEO of DocuSign and Responsys and led both companies through their public offerings. He currently serves on the boards of UiPath and Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco. He holds an MBA from Harvard University and an AB in Mathematics and Economics from Occidental College, where he captained both the soccer and lacrosse teams.
Chief Technology Officer
Verma is a transformative and inspirational technology leader with deep experience in AI/ML, large language models (LLMs), distributed systems, and data technologies. Verma is a long-time Google veteran who most recently served as Chief Technology Officer of Character AI where she created the innovation agenda in multimodal AI, leading to the launch of AvatarFX. Prior to Character, she was Vice President and General Manager of Google’s Core Labs. In her role, she was responsible for driving innovation across engineering and product for new platforms and product experiences that incorporated generative AI and LLMs. She also served as the Head of Ads Quality for Google’s Search & Shopping Ads business, where she initiated and launched a suite of category-defining advertiser experiences including Responsive Search Ads. Additionally, Verma worked across Google’s Payments and Distributed Infrastructure teams, driving lasting impact across a wide range of Google’s leading consumer & Enterprise products.
Verma is passionate about engagement with the academic community. While at Google, she worked closely on an outreach program to help Googlers engage with college programs and helped remove barriers for underrepresented talent in the tech industry. She led the Search Ads Academic Outreach Committee and has been a long-time supporter and participant of the Women Techmakers Engineering Fellow (WTEF) program and a dedicated mentor, coach, and adviser to senior women across the Bay Area tech community.
Chief Product Officer
Herman Man is Ironclad’s Chief Product Officer, leading product development, user experience, and research. He has 30 years of experience building and scaling companies in both enterprise and small business markets, most recently at Bluevine, Xero, and Microsoft. He was also a previous co-founder and holds multiple software patents. Outside of work he enjoys staying active with his wife, two sons, and a cockapoo. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Waterloo.
General Counsel
Jasmine Singh is Ironclad’s General Counsel, leading legal and compliance and advising the company on legal product innovation. She has more than 18 years of in-house legal and big law litigation experience, with a focus on negotiating complex transactions and implementing contract management solutions at Binti, Patreon, Pinterest, and 24 Hour Fitness. She serves on the boards of Public Advocates and California Change Lawyers, and founded Dincert, a decentralized philanthropy initiative that has raised tens of thousands for local nonprofits. She holds a JD from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and English from the University of Michigan.
Chief Financial Officer
Helen Wang is Ironclad’s Chief Financial Officer. She has more than 20 years of experience that spans operating finance and M&A roles. Prior to Ironclad, she was the Global Payments CFO at eBay and a Vice President at Rothschild. On weekends, you can find Helen chasing after her children and attempting to jump start a career as a pickleball player. She graduated from Harvard as a George F. Baker Scholar and with honors from NYU Stern School of Business.
Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer
Elise Bergeron is Ironclad’s Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer. She has more than 18 years of leadership experience fostering vibrant communities, scaling brands, and navigating acquisitions at leading SaaS and data companies, including Snowflake, Salesforce, Facebook, and Vistaprint. Elise used to enjoy outdoor adventures including bungee jumping and sky diving, but you can now find her most weekends watching her kids play basketball, soccer, flag football, baseball or all of the above. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Stanford University.

Chief Information Security Officer
Dimitry Dukhovny is the CISO at Ironclad, the dominant, category-shaping AI contract lifecycle management solution. At Ironclad, Dimitry leads the company’s security strategy, operations, and compliance programs, including Federal compliance, and AI governance. His highly capable team builds audit-ready controls for Ironclad’s service to enterprise and public sector customers. Before joining Ironclad, Dimitry cut his teeth in the intelligence and national nuclear enterprise spaces, to include the Defense Intelligence Agency, “Special Programs” at Sandia National Laboratories, and the Federal practice at IBM, formerly PwC. He was most recently CISO or otherwise ran the security practices at AI-driven supply chain and computer vision firms. These firms served the intelligence community at the intersection of analytics, defense, and cross-domain distributed systems. Dimitry’s MBA is from University of California, Davis. He built high-trust security programs that enable innovation and operations in highly regulated and sometimes physically contested environments.
Chief People Officer
Mike Jordan is Ironclad’s Chief People Officer, leading Ironclad’s high-performance culture and bringing an AI-first lens to the people function. He has more than 30 years of experience in talent and performance management, succession planning, and organizational design, most recently at Asana, HP, and DigitalGlobe. Outside of work, Mike loves traveling, especially with his dogs, who believe they should be able to go everywhere. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature from the University of Arizona.
Senior Vice President, Americas
Dave Simon is Senior Vice President for the Americas at Ironclad, where he leads sales and helps customers realize greater value from Ironclad. He joined Ironclad in 2025 after nearly seven years leading DocuSign’s CLM business.
Dave is based in the San Francisco Area and has held leadership roles at DocuSign, 6sense, Responsys, Oracle, and SuccessFactors. He is known for scaling high-performing teams and translating emerging market opportunities into sustained growth. He was named a Top 100 Sales Leader by Hot Topics in 2016.
General Manager and Senior Vice President, EMEA
Eduardo Crespo is General Manager and SVP of EMEA at Ironclad, the leading AI contracting platform that turns agreements into business assets. Eduardo brings over +23 years of diverse experience spanning investment banking, strategy consulting, and disruptive cloud and software solutions. Most recently, Eduardo led PagerDuty’s EMEA business as Vice President, EMEA. Prior to that, he was part of the leadership teams that scaled Medallia, the SaaS leader in experience management, from its Series-C stage through an IPO on the NYSE and into its PE-backed phase under Thomas Bravo. Across multiple roles — including General Manager of UK&I and SVP for West EMEA — Eduardo built a successful track record of scaling regional teams, standing up new functions, and executing integrated go-to-market plans. Earlier in his career, Eduardo provided C-suite advisory as a consultant at Boston Consulting Group in London and Associate at Goldman Sachs in New York. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and political science from Bates College and the University of Oxford, and an MBA from London Business School. Outside of his professional roles, Eduardo enjoys spending time with family, traveling, is an active executive coach, invests in emerging-market enterprises, and cultivates a yoga practice. He is London-based. He is a triple national of the UK, Ecuador, and Spain. He is based in London.
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