Team: John Goldstein,      Co-Founder & Managing Director Taylor Jordan,      Co-Founder & Managing Director Melissa Cheong,      Head of Investments Patrick Maloney,      Head of Strategy Niko Klein,      Head of Research James Ruggiero,      Research Analyst Laura Spiekerman,      Research Analyst Andrea Woodside,      Client Analyst Lauren Cochran,      Vice President Tara M. Kramlich,      Associate Danielle Reed,      Associate Joe Silver,      Associate Lisa N. Williams,      Associate Liz Rockett,      Director of Health Practice Angelo Maddox,      Operations & Human Resources Hilda Sanchez,      Admin Senior Advisors: Jackie Khor,      Senior Advisor Diana L. Lieberman,      Senior Advisor William McCalpin,      Senior Advisor

Laura Spiekerman, Research Analyst Laura graduated from Barnard College with a B.A. in Political Science and Human Rights, with a focus on the evolution of microfinance in international development. She then served as a paralegal at Clayman & Rosenberg, a white collar criminal defense firm, for two years in New York. There Laura worked on a variety of issues, from municipal bond guaranteed investment contracts and interest rate swaps to stock promotion and ATM fraud. After returning to California, Laura went to Nairobi, Kenya to work at Kopo Kopo, a tech startup related to the back-office integration of mobile payments for SMEs. Laura also serves on the board of the Barnard Club of Northern California.