Jonathan Siegel

JONATHAN SIEGEL is the founder of RightCart, RightSignature, and RightScale. He is chairman and founder of Xenon Ventures, which specializes in the acquisition, acceleration, and exit of high-margin Software as a Service companies. He spent ten years as the founder and CEO of ELC Technologies, a Ruby on Rails consultancy, which was acquired in 2010 by PriceGrabber’s Kamran Pourzanjani. He also has a sideline as the founder of a chain of Irish pubs on the West Coast, Brendan’s. Following the mantra, “If something is important, do it yourself,” he is a patent author, a licensed real estate broker, a licensed contractor, a FAA-certified flight instructor (MEI, CFII fixed wing land), a certified helicopter private pilot, and a certified commercial jet pilot (EA50). He has lived in Santa Barbara, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Dublin, and Tokyo with his wife and a growing number of Irish-American children (currently eight).