Women Watchlist: Crypto & Blockchain Edition

Women’s International Day is a day to recognize and celebrate the accomplishments of women in all different industries worldwide. Today, I would like to highlight the amazing women influencing the crypto and blockchain space. Men have long dominated the finance industry, but does crypto and blockchain offer a new outlet for women to take control and influence? […]

Crypto & Blockchain: The ‘Pawfect’ Solution to Saving Rescue Dogs

According to Petpedia, over 6 million animals enter animal shelters across the United States each year. At any given time, however, there are about 70 million stray animals on the streets, suffering from heat exhaustion during the summer and freezing from low temperatures during the winter. Only 10%, of the 70 million, enter the shelters […]

Is Crypto a Man’s Game? Capturing Women’s Share of Digital Wallet

The financial sector has been notorious to be a male dominated industry. Although gender equality in the space has improved over the last decade, the gender gap is still very-much apparent along the financial authoritative pipeline. But, crypto is challenging this archetype. Like the financial industry, the crypto space is stereotyped as predominantly male. GoogleAnalytics even […]

Proposed Stimulus Package by the Biden Administration: Further Stimulating a Crypto Nation

On January 14, president-elect Joe Biden announced a proposed $1.9 trillion rescue package in an effort to stimulate the United States economy and combat the COVID-19 fiscal crisis. Mr. Biden’s pandemic response will be financed completely through increased federal borrowing. The president-elect states, “The very health of our nation is at stake… [and it] does […]

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Daniel Siciliano

F. Daniel Siciliano is an Independent Director of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco and Chair of the American Immigration Council. He is the former faculty director of the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University and former Professor of the Practice and Associate Dean at Stanford Law School. His work has included expert testimony in front of both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives and for 2009, 2010, and 2011, alongside leading academics and business leaders such as Ben Bernanke, Paul Krugman, and Carl Icahn, Professor Siciliano was named to the “Directorship 100” – a list of the most influential people in corporate governance.

Siciliano was also co-founder, CEO and ultimately Executive Chairman of LawLogix Group, Inc. – a global software technology company named 9 consecutive times to the Inc. 500/5000, several times ranked as one of the Top 100 fastest-growing private software companies in the US and named to the US Hispanic Business 500 (largest) and Hispanic Business 100 (fastest growing) lists for 2010 and 2011. In 2012 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 is a co-founder and board member of the Silicon Valley Directors’ Exchange (SVDX), Chairman of the national non-partisan American Immigration Council, past-President of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) Council #1057, and an active member of the Latino Corporate Directors’ Association.


Siciliano’s related areas of expertise include executive compensation, corporate compliance, the legal and social impact of autonomous (AI/robotic) systems, and corporate technology strategy and security. He has served as a governance consultant and trainer to the Board of Directors of dozens of Fortune 1000 companies (including Google, Microsoft, Fedex, Disney, Entergy and Applied Materials), is an angel investor and consultant to several firms and companies in Silicon Valley, Hong Kong, India, and Latin America, and currently serves as an independent director on the board of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco. He lives in Los Altos, California.