Laura Neuman

Entrepreneur, Self-employed

Laura Neuman is a multi-time CEO who has also held public office in Maryland. Laura is innovator with an entrepreneurial focus in strategy development and implementation with over 20 years of success that includes financing and building/motivating great teams.

Her experience ranges from venture-backed start-up to established national organizations. She has mentored, consulted, evaluated or invested in hundreds of early stage or start-up companies. Her most notable achievement in business was to build technology startup Matrics out of insolvency, raising $17 million in venture capital; it was sold for $230 million. Matrics was voted Venture Deal of the Year and was presented as a case study on successful entrepreneurship at Princeton University.

Without finishing high school or college, Laura was accepted into and completed the MBA from Loyola University in Maryland and was then invited to the Executive Program at Stanford Business School.