Bio

Robert Siegel is a Lecturer in Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a venture investor. At the Stanford Graduate School of Business he has taught eight different courses and currently teaches Systems Leadership, Financial Management for Entrepreneurs, and Strategies of Effective Product Management. He has led research and written cases on companies including Google, Charles Schwab, Daimler, AB InBev, Box, Stripe, Target, AngelList, 23andMe, C3.ai, Majid Al Futtaim, Tableau, PayPal, SurveyMonkey, Medium, Autodesk, Minted, Axel Springer and Michelin, amongst others. Robert is a Venture Partner at Piva and a General Partner at XSeed Capital. He sits on the Board of Directors of LUUM Lash, Avochato, FindMine, and Algopix, and led investments in Sparta Science, Zooz (acquired by PayU of Naspers), Hive, Lex Machina (acquired by LexisNexis of RELX Group ), CirroSecure (acquired by Palo Alto Networks), Nova Credit, The League (acquired by Match Group), Teapot (acquired by Stripe), Smart Coffee Technology, Pixlee (acquired by Emplifi), and SIPX (acquired by ProQuest). He is the author of The Brains and Brawn Company: How Leading Organizations Blend the Best of Digital and Physical. Robert is also a Member of the Supervisory Board of TTTech Auto AG, and is Chairman of the Strategic Advisory Board for TTTech Computertechnik AG. Siegel is a Member of the Industry Advisory Boards for HERE Technologies and Tulco, and is the Co-President Emeritus of Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs. He was on the Board of SmartDrive Systems for 14 years (acquired by Omnitracs), and is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and Forbes. Robert was previously General Manager of the video and software solutions division for GE Security, with annual revenues of over $350 million. He was also Executive Vice President of Pixim, Inc., a fabless semiconductor firm specializing in image sensors and processors (acquired by Sony). Before Pixim, Robert was Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Weave Innovations Inc. (acquired by Kodak). Robert also served in various management roles at Intel Corporation. He is the co-inventor of four patents and served as lead researcher for Andy Grove’s best-selling book, Only the Paranoid Survive. Robert holds a BA from UC Berkeley and an MBA from Stanford University. He is married with three grown children.