Laura is one of leading experts on advanced water technology and its potential for business operations. With over 20 years of experience launching game-changing technology into emerging markets, Laura was one of the first to focus upon the business opportunities for integrated product offering in water management.
With over a decade of business experience outside of the US, Laura works with a diverse group of leading water technologies from onsite wastewater treatment to microbial fuel cells to speed their market introduction. She also works with a limited number of large corporations, such as Wal-Mart, IBM and Novozymes on their water management strategies.
Each year, the Artemis Project hosts the Artemis Water Tech Top 50, which provides a central benchmark for innovation in the water industry. It brings together leading experts in the water industry and provides a rigorous, independent mechanism for identifying the leading 50 water technology ventures.
In May, Laura co-hosted the first Water Leadership Summit in Toronto, which brought together an elite community of the senior executives and venture capitalists that are leading change in the water industry.
Laura has moderated technical forums at the annual conference of the waste water industry, WEFTEC, and presented at research conferences at Ben Gurion University in Israel, The University of California at Los Angeles and The University of California at Berkeley. She is an active member of the NSF Onsite Water Think Tank, the Alliance for Water Efficiency research committee and the Water Reuse Association.
As a member of Environmental Entrepreneurs, Laura co-authored their water policy paper that has driven California state policy to conserve water and energy.
Laura’s research and opinions have appeared in numerous press outlets, including Inc. Magazine, USA Today and the Christian Science Monitor.
Laura served as a member of Michael Porter’s Competitive Advantage of the Middle East project, where she worked for the Egyptian, Jordanian, Palestinian and Israeli governments to identify the most promising world-class industries for the region.
A graduate of Yale University, Laura holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. She has lived throughout the world and currently resides in San Francisco, California.
