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Russell Siegelman has spent over twenty years in business and technology as a manager, investor and director. Currently he is splitting his time between teaching, angel investing, and non-profit activities.
As a Lecturer at Stanford Business School he teaches Startup Garage, Product Launch, and Starting and Growing a Social Venture. Russell is a mentor and adviser to many GSB and other entrepreneurs.
In the non-profit area, he is the Chairman of the Board of the Global Innovation Fund, Chairman of the Board of Sustainable Conservation, a member of the USAID Development Lab Advisory Committee, and an active donor to the Jamal Poverty Action Lab at MIT. Previously he has been a board member at Innovations for Poverty Action, a Trustee of the Nueva School, and a board member at the Lucille Packard Foundation for Children’s Health.
Russell has made personal investments in over forty technology start-ups.
Starting in 1996, Russell spent eleven years as a Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, where he invested in consumer and technology related technologies and markets, including software, electronic commerce, Web services, semiconductors, mobile systems, media and telecommunications.
Russell joined KPCB after seven years at Microsoft. At Microsoft he helped launch several networking and Windows products. Later he worked directly for Bill Gates, resulting in the formation the Microsoft Network (MSN), Microsoft's online service. He also oversaw the formation of the new web site Slate.
He earned his BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Physics in 1984 and an MBA from Harvard University where he was a Baker Scholar in 1989.