Biography

John Siegler is the Managing Partner and Founder of Capital Run LLC, based in Seattle, Washington. Prior to his current role, he was a partner at America’s Growth Capital in Menlo Park, CA covering consumer, internet, mobile, digital media and software companies in both Silicon Valley and the Pacific Northwest.

Mr. Siegler has been an investment banker for more than 25 years. Prior to starting Capital Run, Mr. Siegler was a Managing Director at Piper Jaffray, Dain Raucher Wessels and Volpe Brown & Whelen where he ran each firm’s private placement group and consumer investment banking teams. Previously he was at Montgomery Securities and Paine Webber, Inc. in San Francisco and New York.

Mr. Siegler has worked as a financial strategic advisor to leading companies in the consumer, healthcare, technology, and alternative energy industries. He has advised on IPO’s, private placements, fairness opinions and merger and acquisition transactions for a broad variety of companies including Amgen, Cabela’s, Outback Power, Silicon Energy, Organic to Go, Nanostring Technologies, Pacific Coast Restaurants, Gart Sports, Heat-N-Glo, Apex PC Solutions (Avocent), Wycoff Farms, Issaquah Dental, iWon, Avtech, Julep, Medsphere, Plansoft, Cool Cuts 4 Kids, Zoots, USA.Net, Bridge Medical, Aventail, Optum Software, Butter London, BSquare, LeeAnn Chin, House of Blues, School Specialties, Seattle Hospitality, iVow, Medical Arts Press, Image-X, Blue Rhino, Rosella’s Fruit & Produce, Tweeter, Crocs, Yesmail.com, InfoSpace, Paper Warehouse, Brass Eagle, Guitar Centers, Wild Oats Markets, Harris Interactive, Rainforest Café, Ultimate Electronics, Rock Bottom Restaurants, Cross Town Trader, Nordstrom.com, and WeddingChannel.com.

Mr. Siegler serves on the Board of Directors of Julep (Seattle) and Balanced Health (Boston). He is a director of the Casey Health Institute (Washington DC) and the ACT Theatre Foundation. He recently served on the boards of Music of Remembrance and the American Liver Foundation. He is a co-chair of the St. Albans School for Boys Centennial Campaign, is Chairman of the Princeton Prize for Race Relations in the Pacific Northwest, and is regional director of Princeton’s Aspire Capital Campaign.

He graduated from Princeton University in 1977 and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 1982. He enjoys spey casting for king salmon, rotisserie baseball and debating politics. He is married to Alexandra E. Read, MD and has two children.