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Peter Gassner

United States 61 years old Self-Made

Overview

Source of Wealth
Software
Industry
Technology
Residence
Pleasanton, California
Education
Oregon State University (Bachelor of Science)
Marital Status
Married
Children
2

Assets

  • Guidewire Software
    8,000 shares @ -
    -
    GWRE-US
  • Veeva Systems
    12,187,000 shares @ -
    -
    VEEV-US
  • Veeva Systems
    698,000 shares @ -
    -
    VEEV-US
  • Veeva Systems
    2,093,000 shares @ -
    -
    VEEV-US
  • Zoom Video Communications
    1,215,000 shares @ -
    -
    ZM-US

Biography

Peter Gassner is the CEO and founder of Veeva Systems, a cloud software provider for pharmaceutical and biotech companies.

Before Veeva, Gassner worked at IBM, PeopleSoft and Salesforce.

After 4 years at Salesforce, he saw an opportunity to offer software focused on life sciences built on Salesforce's platform.

Gassner started Veeva in 2007 with Matt Wallach, who had a background in tech sales to big pharma.

Today Veeva helps companies manage their drug development and commercialization processes. Customers include Abbvie and Pfizer.

About

Gassner flies coach on international trips and likes to ride his bike to work.

He has said he learned not to get ahead of himself with ambitions or ego from PeopleSoft billionaire founder, David Duffield.