- Matthew Schiltz has led eight companies as CEO, including DocuSign and Conga
- Schiltz helped grow Conga’s run rate from $15 million to $400 million before its IPO
- David Gross will continue advising Parry Labs as a board observer
Parry Labs has appointed former Conga CEO Matthew Schiltz to its board of directors as its founding chairman transitions to chairman emeritus. The defense technology company said Monday that Chairman David Gross, Parry Labs’ first capital investor and board chair for more than eight years, will remain engaged with the company as a board observer.
Who Is Matthew Schiltz?
Schiltz is a technology executive, investor and adviser with more than three decades of experience in the software, cloud computing and telecommunications sectors. He has spent his career building and scaling software-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service and artificial intelligence companies.
He currently serves as an investor and adviser to Venice.ai, Zuper, Parachute Health and Symend. He also sits on the board of Conga, having joined after the company merged with Apttus in May 2020. Before that, he spent nearly five years as Conga’s CEO, during which the company’s run rate grew from $15 million to $400 million ahead of its initial public offering.
Before Conga, he spent four years as president and CEO of DocuSign, growing the company at a compounded annual rate of more than 200 percent and closing three funding rounds with investors, including Salesforce and the National Association of Realtors. He led DocuSign through a 10x growth run to its IPO, helping build it into a company now valued at more than $15 billion. He also sat on DocuSign’s advisory board for more than three years.
Schiltz’s earlier CEO posts include Blue Box, a private cloud provider that IBM acquired in 2015, and Tier 3, which CenturyLink acquired in 2013. He also led cloud storage company Symform, which Quantum later acquired.
Earlier, he served as president and CEO of General Software, where he formed alliances with Intel and AMD before Phoenix Technologies acquired the company. He also led CourtLink, securing more than $20 million in financing ahead of its merger with LexisNexis, and StatSci, where he was a key executive in its merger with MathSoft. He was also president and COO of telecommunications company Cable Plus. He began his career as director of channel management at HP.
Why Is Schiltz Joining Parry Labs’ Board?
Schiltz cited similarities between the changes he helped lead in enterprise software and the ongoing shift in defense technology. He pointed to drones, robotics and distributed command and control capabilities as developments moving military computing to the edge.
He believes the military technology shift could follow a trajectory comparable to the growth of the SaaS market and views Parry Labs as well positioned to participate.
“I have spent the past 30 years of my professional life leading teams disrupting legacy markets with new technology, and Parry Labs is doing exactly that in national security,” Schiltz said.
What Other Recent Moves Has Parry Labs Made?
Schiltz’s appointment follows the arrival of Scott DeVona as chief revenue officer in September. Earlier, the company named Don Claussen CEO in a leadership restructuring that moved founder John “JD” Parkes, a two-time Wash100 Award winner, to executive chairman. Claussen previously served as CEO of ST Engineering iDirect and held senior roles at L3Harris, Viasat, Intelsat General Communications and Cisco.
In July 2025, Parry Labs promoted Amber Walker to chief growth officer. Walker joined the company in 2024 from Anduril Industries, where she was senior technical director for the land systems business.
