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Laurie recently held the position of Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for Eyespot Corporation through its formative years in 2006 and 2007. She has taken an indefinite leave of absence, but remains a key advisor to the Company on strategic partnerships and business relationships that drive the growth of the Eyespot Personalization Network.Her career has been spent creating critical networks across a variety of sectors: media, education, healthcare and philanthropy. She is Co-founder of dotSUB, a technology company developing browser based tools for subtitling video from one language into any other language. She holds the position of Senior Fellow at the Norman Lear Center of the Annenberg School of Communications, University of Southern California, where she serves as Co-director of the Lear Center's Creativity, Commerce and Culture Project. Until it closed in 2006, Laurie was President of a private fund endowed by the founders of Red Hat Inc. During her tenure she co-founded Public Knowledge, a Washington, D.C. based public interest group where she currently serves as Chair of the Board. Laurie also serves on the board of directors of Creative Commons and ReNew Media (formerly National Video Resources). She is Chair of the international organization, Teachers Without Borders.Laurie was the first managing director of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and then served as President of Doc Arts, the corporation that produces the festival. She was also the Director of the Health Sector Management Program at the Fuqua School of Business of Duke University and spent many years as a consultant to for-profit and non-profit corporations.Laurie holds a Bachelors degree from New York University and did coursework for a PhD in Human Genetics at the University of California, Berkeley. | 