Laura Martin is Managing Director, Internet and Entertainment at Needham & Company, LLC &
President of Capital Knowledge, LLC
Laura Martin received her BA from Stanford and her MBA from Harvard Business School, and she is a CFA (fundamental analyst) and CMT (technical analyst). Martin began her career at Drexel Burnham Lambert in media investment banking, followed by Capital Research & Management, where she advised $100 billion and managed a $500 million portfolio of media stocks. She moved to Credit Suisse First Boston in 1994 as the senior media analyst, where she was nationally ranked by Institutional Investor between 1999 and 2001. In 2002, Martin moved to Paris to become EVP of Financial Strategy and Investor Relations for Vivendi Universal. In 2004, she founded Media Metrics, LLC publishing equity research on the largest entertainment, cable and Internet stocks in the U.S., where she was nationally ranked as “Best of the Independent Research Boutiques” by Institutional Investor for many years. In 2009, Martin moved to Needham & Company, LLC, where she publishes research on the largest Internet and Entertainment companies. Martin also provides speaking, expert testimony, and valuation consulting services through Capital Knowledge.