Laurie Stanley’s career in high-tech corporate marketing and communications spans two decades and includes working with small, pre-IPO start-ups as well as a $1 billion+ public corporation. She began her high-tech career in the market research department at Epsilon Data Management and later moved into the corporate marketing function at Industrial Vision Systems. Her experience in the electronics design industry includes a variety of marketing communications and PR roles at Telesis, Valid Logic Systems and Cadence Design Systems. At Cadence she managed the global PR operations and worked closely with the corporate investor relations and employee communications groups.
Prior to becoming part of Wired Island in 2000, Laurie was Senior Director of Public Relations for e-business application service provider ZLand.com. She has also worked as a strategic communications consultant for several Web-based software and infrastructure providers.
Laurie has extensive electronics industry contacts. Her areas of expertise include the strategic planning and execution of company rollouts, mergers and acquisitions, product launches, issues-oriented PR campaigns, and industry initiatives, notably including the 1996 launch of the Virtual Socket Interface Alliance (VSIA).
