Robert Siegel

Robert is a Lecturer in Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a venture investor, and an operator.

At the Stanford School of Business he has taught nine different courses and currently teaches System Leadership, Financial Management for Entrepreneurs, and Corporations, Finance and Governance in the Global Economy. He has authored over 115 business cases and led research on companies including Google, Charles Schwab, Daimler, AB InBev, Box, Stripe, Target, AngelList, 23andMe, C3.ai, Majib Al Futtaim, Tableau, PayPal, Medium, Autodesk, Minted, Axel, Springer and Michelin, amongst others.

For over two decades he has been an active venture capitalist and investor, and sits on multiple Board of Directors across the United States and Europe. Robert is a Member of the Supervisory Board of HERE Technologies and is Chairman of the Strategic Advisory Board for TTTech Computertechnik AG. He has co-authored several articles for the Harvard Business Review and the California Management Review, and is frequently quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Insider, and other leading publications.

He is the author of The System Leader: Mastering the Cross-Pressures That Make or Break Today’s Companies, and The Brains and the Brawn Company: How Leading Organizations Blend the Best of Digital and Physical.

Robert held numerous operating roles during his career, including General Manager of the Video and Software Solutions division for GE Security, Executive Vice President of Pixim, Inc., and he was the Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Weave Innovations Inc. He served in various management roles at Intel Corporation, including an executive position on their Corporate Business Development team.

Robert is the co-inventor of four patents and served as lead researcher for Andy Grove’s best-selling book, Only the Paranoid Survive.

Robert is married with three grown children.