Laurie Lamberth is an independent VP of Business Development with proven success driving high-value mobile products and services from concept to market. She applies her 18 years as a successful Wireless insider to help technology companies launch mobile products and services and build value chains that deliver resilient revenue streams.
Laurie launched Nextel Communications’ first market in Los Angeles in 1993, then stuck around to help Nextel grow from a scrappy start-up into a Tier 1 mobile operator. She moved into Business Development in 2000, when Nextel launched wireless data service, with the mission to recruit mobile device and application partners to Nextel’s data services portfolio.
In her last job before Nextel, Laurie helped raised $8.3 million in venture funding as Controller for a startup medical device manufacturer. She spent the first decade of her career in Finance and I.T. positions, and is a California CPA and Certified Management Accountant (both inactive). Laurie holds an MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School and a B.S. in Accounting from California State University, Long Beach. She’s also extended her education with workshops in Strategic Negotiation and Leadership at the Harvard Business School.
Laurie publishes articles and research papers on a wide variety of topics related to the Internet of Things, including the smart grid, location-based services (LBS), wireless networks, connected devices and machine-to-machine communications (M2M). Her regular “Unplugged” column in Connected World Magazine explores how growing connectivity affects our daily lives.
Laurie lives, works and tends her organic garden in Long Beach, California
Selected Clients
Bulzi Media, Inc.
(Newport Beach, CA)
Introduce Bulzi to the strategic partners they need to complete and market their solution, and lead negotiations. Bulzi’s solution combines machine-to-machine (M2M) and location technologies with digital media and demographics to provide a new audience measurement technology for out-of-home (billboard) advertising.
Dyna, LLC
(Del Mar, CA)
Hired by the CEO to develop strategic recommendations for company business model, structure and strategic partnering for a new entity developing a communication infrastructure for the connected home.
IP-Vision, AB
(Kiruna, Sweden)
Helped IP-Vision identify and conduct initial meetings with strategic partners needed to support their planned launch of a new digital media service in Northern Europe, based on an e-Reader
