Biography
Dan Siciliano is CEO of Linqto, past Chair of the Council of Federal Home Loan Banks, and the current Chair of the Board of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco. He chairs the Silicon Valley Directors’ Exchange, is a CodeX Fellow at Stanford, and the former faculty director of the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford. His has founded or led several technology companies including LawLogix Group, Inc. and Nikkl, Inc.Along with Stanford Dean Larry Kramer and Professors Daines, Grundfest, and Larcker, he co-founded the Stanford Rock Center in 2006 and, as a Professor of the Practice and Associate Dean at Stanford Law School, led the Center until 2017. His teaching includes Finance, Governance, and Venture Capital and he has testified in front of the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives. In 2009, 2010, and 2011, alongside Bernanke, Krugman, and Icahn, Professor Siciliano was named to the “Directorship 100” – a list of the most influential people in corporate governance. Siciliano, a first-generation Mexican-American, is past chair of the non-partisan American Immigration Council and is a board member and audit chair at the Latino Corporate Director Education Foundation. He is a seasoned policy expert on issues of immigrant/refugee rights, corporate c-suite and boardroom structure, and related matters of economic development. He was co-founder, CEO and Executive Chairman of LawLogix Group – a technology company named 9 times to the Inc. 500/5000, ranked in the Top 100 fastest-growing private companies in the US, and named to the US Hispanic Business 500 (largest) and Hispanic Business 100 (fastest growing) lists for 2010 & 2011. He sold a majority stake of the company to PNC Riverarch Capital, continued as Executive Chairman, and led the sale of the company to Hyland Software/Thoma Bravo in 2015.Siciliano was past Co-Chair of the We Robot Conference on AI/Robotics & Law, past-President of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Council #1057, and a member of the Latino Corporate Directors’ Association. Siciliano’s other areas of expertise include private company valuation, executive compensation, the impact of autonomous (AI/robotic) systems, and corporate technology strategy & security. He has been a consultant to the Boards of Fortune 1000 companies (including Entergy, Google, Microsoft, Fedex, & Disney), an investor and advisor to firms in Silicon Valley, Hong Kong, India, Singapore and Latin America, and splits his time between Los Altos, California; Las Vegas, Nevada; and Phoenix, Arizona.
