Laura Lauder is a native of Canton, Ohio and journeyed to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Seville, Spain for her undergraduate education. In 1992, she joined her husband Gary in their venture capital partnership, Lauder Partners, a Silicon Valley venture fund. Laura now primarily focuses her efforts on strategic grantmaking through the Laura and Gary Lauder Family Venture Philanthropy Fund. She is the Immediate Past Chair of the Endowment Committee and current member of the Endowment Executive Committee at the Jewish Community Endowment Fund of San Francisco, with over $2 billion in assets,.