Laura Norman has 30 years of marketing and communications experience with positions at Salesforce, Microsoft, and Broderbund Software. She has a BA from Columbia University and an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley. Laura founded the Friends of Noe Courts Park in San Francisco and has been a member of Renaissance Entrepreneurship Council’s Women’s Leadership Council. She has been hiking, skiing, and paddling in the Tahoe area since 1991, and has written a guide to stand up paddling on Lake Tahoe. Along with her husband and their Portuguese Water Dog, she currently divides her time between San Francisco and Alpine Meadows.