Peter Gassner

Biography

Peter Gassner is responsible for the overall direction and management of Veeva. In 2010, Peter was named to the PharmaVOICE 100, which recognizes the 100 most influential people in the life sciences industry. Peter is a twenty-year veteran of the software industry. Prior to founding Veeva, Peter was senior vice president of technology at Salesforce, where he had responsibility for building the Salesforce platform including product, marketing, and developer relations. During Peter's tenure, Salesforce completed its public offering and grew the technology into the most successful SaaS platform in the industry. Before Salesforce, Peter was with PeopleSoft for nine years as both chief architect and general manager of PeopleTools. Peter led a team of over 450 professionals who provided the development, strategy, marketing and customer support for PeopleSoft's technology platform. PeopleTools was widely regarded in the industry as the best application platform of its day.

Research Interest

computer science