Organizational Leadership, Brand and Culture Building, Scaling SaaS

• Technology executive with experience building marketplaces, SaaS, and media companies 

• Successfully led sales, marketing, operations, and product for Series A - Series D companies

• Extensive experience  building an inclusive culture and keeping employees engaged

Lauren is an adaptable and driven Executive and General Manager with deep experience scaling businesses and leading cross-functional teams. She believes in the powerful combination of attitude and aptitude and has transformed businesses through the application of data-driven experimentation and a focus on operational efficiency. She’s scaled brands from $0 - $50m in revenue, and 5x’d more mature businesses from $20m to $100m.

Lauren has raised over $80m in venture funding and has advised dozens of founders to help them raise capital successfully. Her experience is functionally centered in marketing and operations, with additional deep experience in product management, sales, business development, and customer experience. After a successful career in advertising running analytics for McCann Worldwide, Lauren joined Current TV and launched the social news site current.com, growing it from 0 to 7m users in the span of a year. She then spent several years running the global marketing team for Blurb, an e-commerce platform, which then sold to Reischling Press, Inc. (RPI). She was then recruited to StyleSeat, where she built the first online beauty marketplace, which is now ranked at #10 on the a16z Marketplace 100 list and supports hundreds of thousands of independent professionals across the country. 

Currently, she is the founder and COO/President of Feed Media Group, a Unified Music System that powers music for top fitness and media brands around the globe. Leveraging her network and relationships in Silicon Valley, she’s co-led Seed and A rounds for a now profitable business that works hand in hand with the music industry to make it simpler to integrate music into apps and digital experiences. Feed Media Group is listed as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in 2024 and has been recognized by the Music Business Association for innovation in music tech. Lauren’s expertise has been recognized by the International Marketing Association as an IMPACT award winner, and she writes extensively on leadership and scaling businesses and has been a featured speaker across the music and tech industries.