Robert Siegel

Robert Siegel is a Lecturer in Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a venture investor, and an operator. At the Stanford Graduate School of Business he has taught nine different courses, authored over 115 business cases, and led research on companies including Google, Charles Schwab, Daimler, AB InBev, Box, Stripe, Target, AngelList, 23andMe, Majid Al Futtaim, Tableau, PayPal, 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 Avochato and FindMine, and led investments in 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 Systems Leader: Mastering the Cross-Pressures That Make or Break Today's Companies, and 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 HERE Technologies and is Chairman of the Strategic Advisory Board for TTTech Computertechnik AG. He is a Member of the Industry Advisory Board for 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. 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.