Seth M. Siegel has served as a director since May 2006.
Mr. Siegel has been working in the corporate and
entertainment licensing industry since 1982.
Mr. Siegel is a co-founder of The Beanstalk Group, a leading brand
licensing agency and consultancy and a part of Omnicon Group Inc. (NYSE:OMC). He continues his relationship
with both The Beanstalk Group (as a Vice Chairman) and Omnicom (as a consultant on special projects). He is
also, since 2007, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Sixpoint Partners, a broker/dealer investment banking boutique and
provider of financial advisory and alternative investment solutions for private equity funds and middle market
companies.
Mr. Siegel has advised many Fortune 500 companies in the proper secondary use of their trademarks,
trade dress and copyrights, and has served as an adviser and/or as the licensing agent for such leading brand
owners as AT&T, IBM, Harley-Davidson, The Stanley Works, Unilever, Ford Motor Company, Chrysler,
Hershey Foods, Campbell Soup, The Rubbermaid Group, and Dr. Scholl's.
Mr. Siegel has also served as an
adviser to and licensing agent for Hanna-Barbera Productions in the retail and promotional licensed applications
of its classic characters, including The Flintstones, The Jetsons and Scooby-Doo.
Mr. Siegel has lectured
throughout the United States and has written articles, opinion pieces, and a criticism for a wide array of
publications, including The New York Times Op-Ed page and The Wall Street Journal. From April 1995 to June
2004, he was a regular columnist for Brandweek magazine, addressing a broad range of issues relating to the
licensing industry and pop culture.
Mr. Siegel has served on the Board of Trustees of the Abraham Joshua
Heschel School, including ten years on its Executive Committee. He also served as chairman of the Cornell
University Hillel. Mr. Siegel sits on both the Cornell University Council and the Advisory Council of Cornell
University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
He is also a member of the national Board of Directors of
AIPAC, a leading foreign policy advocacy organization. Before his work in the licensing industry, Mr. Siegel
practiced law with an entertainment and constitutional law firm in New York.
Mr. Siegel received his bachelors
degree from Cornell University and his J.D. from Cornell University Law School.