Robert Siegel, a well-established lecturer in management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, is also a venture investor with extensive experience in the industry. With a BA in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Siegel has led research and written cases on some of the most successful companies in the world, including Google, Charles Schwab, Daimler, AB InBev, and many others. He is a Venture Partner at Piva and a General Partner at XSeed Capital, sits on the Board of Directors of LUUM Lash and Avochato, and led investments in Sparta Science, Zooz, Hive, and many other companies. Siegel is also the author of The Brains and Brawn Company: How Leading Organizations Blend the Best of Digital and Physical, and a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, and Forbes. He holds four patents and served as lead researcher for Andy Grove's best-selling book, Only the Paranoid Survive. With his successful background in business and investing, Siegel has become a valuable asset to any project he takes on.