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Laura is an experienced licensing executive with overall responsibility for all intellectual property and legal activity for Velocys. A founding member of Velocys, she led the acquisition and in-licensing of the company's large, pioneering patent portfolio, established multi-million dollar development projects for advancing microchannel
technology, and directed Velocys' first sale of licensed technology. In 2008, she was part of the Velocys team awarded an R&D100 award for the Velocys microchannel Fischer Tropsch reactor.
Prior to joining Velocys, Laura served as a Commercialisation Manager at Battelle's Pacific Northwest National Laboratories, which included stewarding two platform technologies through the point of launching their commercial spin-outs as Vitex, Inc. and Velocys, Inc.. Laura has a B.S. and an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Washington State University and is a registered professional engineer in the state of Washington.
