Tom Siegel

Tom was most recently the CEO and co-founder of Trust Lab, a technology company that works with small and large online platforms, governments, and academic institutions to build AI solutions for a safer internet. Before that, Tom spent more than a decade as VP of Trust & Safety at Google, where he built and scaled the global team from the ground up to thousands of members worldwide.

In his early career, Tom worked as a community organizer in East Palo Alto for the Hewlett Foundation on projects related to health, education, and public safety. At the start of his professional career, Tom worked as a management consultant advising large public entities in Europe and Latin America on technology management systems.

Tom serves on a number of Trust & Safety advisory boards and industry initiatives. He founded several nonprofit organizations, most notably the Fishbowl Challenge, which works with youth around the world to help them launch ventures for social change in their communities. He served as the president of a local K–12 school and chaired the Citizen Bond Oversight Committee for his public school district for six years.

He is an industrial engineer by training with a Master's from the University of Technology in Dresden, Germany, and an MBA from Stanford University. He was born in East Germany and as a teen witnessed the fall of the Iron Curtain and German reunification. Tom has three kids in high school, college, and post-college. His family is based in the Bay Area and travels the world extensively. He is a commercial pilot, avid cake baker, soccer player, and concertgoer.