Portrait of Peter Gassner

Rank #1422

Peter Gassner

Net worth $3.0B

Software · United States

Born
Feb 26, 1965
Age
61
Source
Software
Residence
Pleasanton, California
Citizenship
United States
Marital status
Married
Children
2
Education
Bachelor of Science, Oregon State University

Net worth over time

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.
  • 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.

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