Laura served as CEO of C100, the preeminent global community of Canadians in tech. Laura previously worked at Gilt Groupe, a venture-backed ecommerce company in New York, where she led Business Development and Growth teams and also held earlier roles in Strategy and Performance Marketing. At Gilt, she led key product partnerships in the fintech & payments space (Affirm, American Express, MasterCard, Citibank), Travel (Gilt Travel X Secret Escapes), Beauty (Proctor & Gamble), Wine & Spirits (AB InBev, E.&J. Gallo), and Automotive (Fiat). Prior to working in technology and venture capital, Laura was a Project Manager at the World Economic Forum (WEF), and a consultant with McKinsey & Co. in New York, Geneva, London, and Canada. Laura lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.