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Hitendra Chaturvedi is an expert in supply chain strategy, global logistics, entrepreneurship, sustainable supply chains and digitizing supply chains. 

He has extensive experience as a global business professional and subsequently as a successful entrepreneur and sits on advisory committees of many start-ups and incubators, speaker at numerous conferences. 

Chaturvedi is a professor of practice at the W. P. Carey School of Business.

He has been widely covered in press and media as a subject matter expert on global supply chain strategy, green/sustainable supply chain, digitizing supply chains and reverse logistics.

Robert Siegel is a Lecturer in Management and has led primary research and written cases on Google, Charles Schwab, Daimler, AB InBev, Box, Stripe, Target, AngelList, 23andMe, C3.ai, Majid Al Futtaim, Tableau, PayPal, SurveyMonkey, Medium, Autodesk, Minted, Zuora, Axel Springer and Michelin, amongst others.

He is also a General Partner at XSeed Capital and a Venture Partner at Piva. He sits on the Board of Directors of Foxeye Robotics and Avochato. He led investments in Sparta Science, Zooz (acquired by PayU of Naspers - NPN), Hive, Lex Machina (acquired by LexisNexis of the RELX Group - RELX), CirroSecure (acquired by Palo Alto Networks - PANW), Nova Credit, Disco, The League, Trove, Teapot (acquired by Stripe), Smart Coffee Technology, Pixlee and SIPX (acquired by ProQuest). He also supports other companies such as Citrine Informatics.

Robert is a Member of the Supervisory Board of TTTech Auto AG, and is Chairman of the Strategic Advisory Board for TTTech Computertechnik AG in Vienna, Austria. He is a Member of the Industry Advisory Boards for HERE Technologies and Tulco, and is the Co-President Emeritus of Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs, an alumni association that fosters relationships to strengthen the Stanford startup community. Robert was on the Board of SmartDrive Systems for 14 years (acquired by Omnitracs), has co-authored several articles for the Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, is a Wall Street Journal Startup Guru, and is a frequent contributor to Fortune, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and Forbes.

Robert was previously General Manager of the Video and Software Solutions division for GE Security, with annual revenues of $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), a network services developer that invented the world鈥檚 first digital picture frame, and delivered photos and other digital media to PCs and internet / mobile devices.

Robert served in various management roles at Intel Corporation, including an executive position on their Corporate Business Development team, in which he invested capital in startups that were strategically aligned with Intel鈥檚 vision. 

Robert is the co-inventor of four patents and served as lead researcher for Andy Grove鈥檚 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 children.

Gordon’s interests focus on entrepreneurship and technology commercialization. His expertise also includes alliances and joint ventures, intellectual property strategy and licensing, and the roles and operations of board of directors. Gordon is frequently quoted in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and other outlets. He teaches entrepreneurial studies and strategy topics. He holds a BA in economics from Bucknell University and a JD from The Albany Law School of Union University.