Peter Segall
Managing Director at Insight Partners
Peter Segall
Managing Director at Insight Partners
United States
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Director
2016 - Current
Currently serving as board member of Dotmatics, Sift, LeanTaaS, Parachute Health, Sedna, nfinite, WorkIt Health, Invaluable, and Force Therapeutics.
President and CEO
2008 - 2015
Recruited to HealthcareSource by new private equity owners in 2008. Transformed business from a small family business to the leading enterprise software company providing a full suite of talent management solutions to healthcare. Customer ROI included higher quality of hire, lower employee turnover, improved employee engagement, and significant process improvements. Grew company at 31% CAGR over 7 years, managed the sale of the business in May 2015 and provided a 6X return to investors. Successful strategies included (1) recruiting a strong executive team (2) organically building new products that deliver real ROI to customers (3) executing two highly successful acquisitions and (4) building a positive, transparent, service-oriented team and culture.
President North American Higher Education and Operations
2006 - 2008
General manager for the largest business unit of Blackboard, the global leader in internet learning for educational institutions. Oversaw sales, marketing, services, product development and partnerships for the $125M North American Higher Education division serving over 3,000 colleges and universities. Achieved 10% YoY growth and 90%+ renewal rates in a legacy software business in a hyper-competitive environment. Oversaw the integration of main competitor, WebCT into the business to create one integrated operation.
Executive Vice President
1999 - 2006
Built and led the sales organization for one of the leading providers of learning management solutions to global higher education. Served on the Board of Directors and management team that grew the business from under $2M to over $40M+ in annual revenue. Led the expansion into the international EMEA and APAC education markets. Achieved 40% market share for learning management solutions in higher education. Participated in a successful sale of the business to Blackboard in 2006.
Executive Director Project ADAPT
1997 - 1999
Led the largest administrative computing project in Harvard's history. Provided overall strategy, direction and management of the team that replaced Harvard's legacy financial systems spread across hundreds of departments with a single integrated modern financial management system from Oracle.
Partner, Director and Associate - Higher Education Consulting Group
1987 - 1997
Member of the core team that built a prestigious management consultancy to higher education. Provided strategic, operational and technical services to universities including Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, University of California, and University of Illinois, among several others. Built relationships with presidents and CXOs in institutions across the country, selling and leading projects in management reviews, operations improvements, and IT strategy and implementation.
Physics Teacher
1985 - 1987
Education
M.Ed.
1984 - 1985
Bachelor's degree
1979 - 1983