- Managing Director, Entrepreneurship Ventures, Boston, MA, USA
- Co-instructor with Prof. Diane Burton at MIT Sloan School: “Designing & Leading the Entrepreneurial Organization”
- Former Human Capital Partner, Atlas Venture, London, Paris, Munich, and Boston
- Former Senior executive with S.W.I.F.T. sc, Belgium
- Prior twenty years as a Partner with Leading Global Executive Search Consultancies, Russell Reynolds Associates and Heidrick & Struggles in Chicago, Boston, and Brussels
- B.A. and graduate work, University of Iowa, Elected to Mortar Board
Laura has vast experience in strategic human capital issues including recruitment, organizational development and total reward and compensation systems.
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Laura Barker Morse started Entrepreneurship Ventures, Inc., a consulting and coaching practice, in 2008, in response to requests from startups in Scotland, Spain, Québec, and the Boston area.
From 1999 – 2008, Laura was Human Capital Partner at Atlas Venture, the largest transatlantic early stage technology venture capital firm. She worked closely with Atlas portfolio companies in Europe and the US on strategic human capital issues including recruitment, development, and reward systems. She acted as her firm’s senior human resource professional and as liaison with consultants and preferred providers of recruitment, compensation, and human resources.
Prior to joining Atlas Venture, Laura worked in Brussels for S.W.I.F.T. sc, the global financial telecommunications consortium, where she reported to the CEO during a strategic reorganization and led management planning, worldwide recruiting and expatriate services. Laura recruited over 250 European and Asian executives.
Before that, Laura spent twenty years in technology executive search with Russell Reynolds and Heidrick & Struggles. She joined Russell Reynolds in 1977 in Chicago and helped open their Boston office in 1981. As Managing Director and global Practice Leader of the Venture Capital practice, she worked worldwide with venture firms and their portfolio companies. In 1991, she joined Heidrick & Struggles as a Partner in their Technology practice, relocating to their Brussels office in 1992.
Laura is a graduate of the University of Iowa where she was elected to Mortar Board. She is a frequent speaker on recruiting, team building, and career planning at workshops around Europe, and also leading business schools including Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Harvard Business School, and MIT Sloan. She has been teaching the Entrepreneurial Skills Development workshops and programs for more than 3 years in Europe, New Zealand and Canada.
Laura served for ten years as a Trustee of The Computer Museum, and is currently both a Trustee and Chair of the Overseers Nominating Committee of the Museum of Science (Boston). She is a member of Hestia, a charitable giving circle and the Steering Committee of the Women’s Cancers Program Executive Council of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Laura currently serves on the Board of Advisors of Aura Biosciences, a nanotechnology biotech start up, and Fiabee, a Barcelona-based software startup, peerTransfer (Valencia & Boston), and also advises other tech startups in Barcelona, Scotland and Boston, such as Touch Bionics, a Scottish medical device company.
