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| Laurie Dean Baird |
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Laurie Dean Baird is Director of Technology Partnerships for Turner Broadcasting. She is responsible for global research and development partnership activities in new media, covering the areas of emerging advertising technologies, advanced video applications, wireless and mobile technologies, gaming and virtual worlds, and content aggregation. Laurie supports all of Turner's properties, including CNN, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, TNT, TBS, truTV, GameTap, NASCAR.com, Super Deluxe and others. She launched Turner's university research program and is a member of Turner's corporate investment board.
Laurie began her career at Aerodyne Research Inc., a science and engineering institute outside of Boston, where she built strategic alliances with aerospace and instrumentation companies and raised funding through government and private sector (resulting in 15 SBIR/STTR Phase II grants). While at MIT, Laurie co-chaired the 100K Competition (then called the 10K contest). As a member of the MIT Enterprise Forum of Atlanta Executive Committee, she launched the Run It By The Pros start-up clinics. Laurie is President of the Sloan Club of Atlanta and recently completed her term on the MIT National Selection Committee. Her board appointments include: USC Stevens Institute for Innovation, Stanford University Media X, and UGA Mobile Media Consortium.
Laurie is a patent holder and recognized by the National Science Foundation and NASA for her development of innovative technologies. She received an SM (MBA) from the MIT Sloan School and a BS in Physics and a BA in Sociology from St Lawrence University. |
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