Jane Siegel is a founding director of ITSqc, LLC. She was previously the director of the Information Technology Services Qualification Center (ITSqc) in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science. The Center's mission was to address the emerging need for capability models and qualification methods for organizations involved in the evolving Internet economy.

Dr. Siegel was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) from 1988-1993 where she led the team that developed the questionnaire used for Software Capability Maturity Model (SW-CMM) assessment efforts and the Instant Profile Method for rapid SW-CMM assessments. She also served as Principal Investigator for the National Software Capacity Study. From 1994 to 2000, she directed several large research and evaluation studies in the fields of education and health.

Dr. Siegel received her Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 1988. She also received an M.Ed. from the University of Virginia and a B.A. from the University of Colorado, Boulder.