Brian A.D. Siegel, MBA

Director, VP/SVP, Chief Marketing, Communications, Branding, and Growth Executive | Problem Solver + Value Creator | Servant Leader Who Gets Stuff Done | People Focused Culture Champion | GE Alum | MBA

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 17 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2021
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Advisor & Equity Shareholder
Mar 2021
Humantelligence helps people connect, communicate, and collaborate more effectively. Named Best in Class HR Tech for Culture & Collaboration, our solution provides personalized insights in the communication tools organizations use every day: Microsoft Teams®, Outlook®, Gmail®, Zoom®, Webex®, Slack® and calendars. When drafting an email, chatting with a colleague, or joining a meeting, HT automatically surfaces useful, customized tips for more effective communication and collaboration between team members. With this tool, leaders can create more balanced & diverse project teams, reduce friction between team members, and improve productivity. By focusing on collaboration in this way, clients have improved team effectiveness and employee engagement while maximizing investment in their current communication technologies. Award-winning collaboration software: • HRO Today’s HR Tech for Culture & Collaboration • TalentCulture’s Top HR Tech of 2021 & 2022 • Lighthouse Research & Advisory HR Tech’s Best Culture Building Solution • Remote Tech Breakthrough’s Top HR Analytics Software • Engagedly’sTop 100 HR Influencers • Corporate Vision Magazine’s Most Innovative Cloud-Based HR Technology Start Up • PeopleHum’s Top 70 HR Tech Thought Leader • Recooty’s Top 30 HR Tech Influencer • Established’s Top 10 Start Up at the 9th Annual Start Up of the Year Summit • Remote Work Start Up Company of the Year • HR Executive magazine’s Top 100 HR Tech Influencer • HRO Today’s Top Innovator in HR Tech
Advisor & Equity Shareholder
Mar 2021
Having been in accounting, audit, and compliance for more than 25 years – both as practitioners and on the enterprise side – ThinkRisk founders saw firsthand the pain involved in doing the job when you lack the necessary technology and proper analysis tools. Technology could serve up the data, but the review and analysis process remained a heavily manual and tedious exercise. Nitin and Jagdish also knew from personal experience what it’s like to be part of the most overlooked community within an enterprise. They had experienced what it’s like to not have enough bandwidth to close the books monthly or complete audit schedules on time without a major hit to work/life balance. This empathy fueled their passion for developing an AI-driven SaaS platform to provide tools and technologies that would enable the finance community to do their jobs better. ThinkRisk is on a mission to make risk management autonomous by helping the finance and audit community identify and act, in real time, on transactional anomalies within their ecosystem. Our vision is to transform the space by empowering this community across industry, across function, and ultimately, across geographies. Underserved finance and accounting organizations have told us they appreciate how ThinkRisk enables them to scale, while building TRUST and STRENGTH in their financials through Continuous Transaction Monitoring across all financial data sets – uncovering and mitigating risks in their day-to-day workflows.
Principal Advisor, Investor & Consultant (VCG & Gapstow Ventures)
Feb 2013
hello | us The VERB Consulting Group (VCG) is a full service human driven integrated marketing strategy and business management firm headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. We aim to delight clients and enchant customers. Our faith based team brings organizations and brands alive by instigating meaningful engagement, provoking movement through pivotal growth strategy aligned to team goals, and verbal & visual identity tools. We’re renowned for strategically partnering as experienced subject matter experts on identifying methods to impact scale, and brand artists & scientists who provide creative insights that deliver original ideas relevant for: Growth Marketing, Business Management & Alignment, Go-To-Market efforts (Commercialization & Distribution), Leads, Content, Communications, Design, Public and/or Community Relations, and Digital (Web) & Social Media. Our influencer tactics are born from the proprietary "dig"​ approach, and "IMMERSION"​ process. From start-ups to Fortune 500s, public to private companies, small to mid-sized organizations, cause related and non-profits, VERB is positioned to build business impact with customer focus, brand transformation, and marketing strategies that grow your business, team, and nudge culture. human driven. faith fueled. www.teamverb.com ***Check out our investment arm, www.gapstowventures.com
Experience · 8 entries
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2025
Trainings, Certifications, and Programming
Jan 2025
This is the official Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) LinkedIn account and is used to build awareness of workplace culture, engagement opportunities, and the FBI mission. The FBI does not collect comments or messages through this account. The FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in the world. We are an intelligence-driven, outcome-focused national security organization. Steeped in a history of innovation and determination, the Bureau is a collective of individuals united under one unwavering mission: to protect the American people and uphold the U.S. Constitution. The FBI mission guides our efforts and focuses our resources on critical threats, while our core values—respect, integrity, accountability, leadership, compassion, fairness, and rigorous obedience to the Constitution—serve as the foundation of everything we do. The FBI has more than 500 purpose-driven careers—such as special agent, forensic accountant, victim specialist, and IT specialist—to safeguard the nation against cyberattacks, financial fraud, organized crime, and more. We leverage our varied backgrounds, from art history to engineering, to investigate illegal activity. The FBI collaborates worldwide with law enforcement partners and intelligence agencies, providing resources including biometric identification, laboratory examinations, comprehensive training, and more. And while you are investing in us, the FBI is investing in you: Bureau benefits include unparalleled leadership development, advancement and growth opportunities, and an impactful career that enables our workforce to evolve with the mission. Set yourself apart by joining the FBI. Apply today. Note: Submit tips at tips.fbi.gov. Public info may be used for authorized purposes only: justice.gov/doj/privacy-policy.
2021
Advisor & Equity Shareholder
Mar 2021
Humantelligence helps people connect, communicate, and collaborate more effectively. Named Best in Class HR Tech for Culture & Collaboration, our solution provides personalized insights in the communication tools organizations use every day: Microsoft Teams®, Outlook®, Gmail®, Zoom®, Webex®, Slack® and calendars. When drafting an email, chatting with a colleague, or joining a meeting, HT automatically surfaces useful, customized tips for more effective communication and collaboration between team members. With this tool, leaders can create more balanced & diverse project teams, reduce friction between team members, and improve productivity. By focusing on collaboration in this way, clients have improved team effectiveness and employee engagement while maximizing investment in their current communication technologies. Award-winning collaboration software: • HRO Today’s HR Tech for Culture & Collaboration • TalentCulture’s Top HR Tech of 2021 & 2022 • Lighthouse Research & Advisory HR Tech’s Best Culture Building Solution • Remote Tech Breakthrough’s Top HR Analytics Software • Engagedly’sTop 100 HR Influencers • Corporate Vision Magazine’s Most Innovative Cloud-Based HR Technology Start Up • PeopleHum’s Top 70 HR Tech Thought Leader • Recooty’s Top 30 HR Tech Influencer • Established’s Top 10 Start Up at the 9th Annual Start Up of the Year Summit • Remote Work Start Up Company of the Year • HR Executive magazine’s Top 100 HR Tech Influencer • HRO Today’s Top Innovator in HR Tech
Advisor & Equity Shareholder
Mar 2021
Having been in accounting, audit, and compliance for more than 25 years – both as practitioners and on the enterprise side – ThinkRisk founders saw firsthand the pain involved in doing the job when you lack the necessary technology and proper analysis tools. Technology could serve up the data, but the review and analysis process remained a heavily manual and tedious exercise. Nitin and Jagdish also knew from personal experience what it’s like to be part of the most overlooked community within an enterprise. They had experienced what it’s like to not have enough bandwidth to close the books monthly or complete audit schedules on time without a major hit to work/life balance. This empathy fueled their passion for developing an AI-driven SaaS platform to provide tools and technologies that would enable the finance community to do their jobs better. ThinkRisk is on a mission to make risk management autonomous by helping the finance and audit community identify and act, in real time, on transactional anomalies within their ecosystem. Our vision is to transform the space by empowering this community across industry, across function, and ultimately, across geographies. Underserved finance and accounting organizations have told us they appreciate how ThinkRisk enables them to scale, while building TRUST and STRENGTH in their financials through Continuous Transaction Monitoring across all financial data sets – uncovering and mitigating risks in their day-to-day workflows.
2020
Board Member
Jul 2020
Mission iSPACE ignites passion for Science and Technology to prepare all learners to thrive in tomorrow’s workforce. About iSPACE iSPACE, the STEM Learning Place, a non-profit organization, serving the Greater Cincinnati Region, makes learning exciting by providing engaging Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) programs to schools, families and the community. iSPACE programs are aligned with national and state educational standards and complement teaching curricula but they reach beyond the formal classroom setting to spark curiosity and inspire interest in STEM. iSPACE uses best practices in innovative programs to help students and educators build confidence and interest in STEM knowledge and careers. Programs and partnerships are designed to fill the region’s future workforce in manufacturing, technology, research, health care and other STEM-related fields. Participants explore robotics, rocketry, and more. They engage in active, hands-on problem solving and team-based projects, building the skills and confidence they’ll need in their future and as they join our region’s workforce with careers in manufacturing, technology, research, health care, etc. iSPACE makes an impact in over 500 classrooms yearly. Our programs are aligned with national and state educational standards and complement classroom curriculum.
2013
Principal Advisor, Investor & Consultant (VCG & Gapstow Ventures)
Feb 2013
hello | us The VERB Consulting Group (VCG) is a full service human driven integrated marketing strategy and business management firm headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. We aim to delight clients and enchant customers. Our faith based team brings organizations and brands alive by instigating meaningful engagement, provoking movement through pivotal growth strategy aligned to team goals, and verbal & visual identity tools. We’re renowned for strategically partnering as experienced subject matter experts on identifying methods to impact scale, and brand artists & scientists who provide creative insights that deliver original ideas relevant for: Growth Marketing, Business Management & Alignment, Go-To-Market efforts (Commercialization & Distribution), Leads, Content, Communications, Design, Public and/or Community Relations, and Digital (Web) & Social Media. Our influencer tactics are born from the proprietary "dig"​ approach, and "IMMERSION"​ process. From start-ups to Fortune 500s, public to private companies, small to mid-sized organizations, cause related and non-profits, VERB is positioned to build business impact with customer focus, brand transformation, and marketing strategies that grow your business, team, and nudge culture. human driven. faith fueled. www.teamverb.com ***Check out our investment arm, www.gapstowventures.com
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