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Hey Party People! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday, and are staying safe and healthy :) I'm back with our year-end member newsletter and a few updates to share:
Cha-Cha-Changes
As some of you may know, our dearest Sarah Anawalt took a job with Exer Labs this fall. Thus, she's stepping back from her role as LTO's VP of Operations and Community for the time being. Sarah has been an incredible asset over the past year, helping us navigate the insanity of COVID and driving forward so many of our 2020 initiatives. While I'm bummed to lose her, she will remain a part of the LTO family and reengage in Q3 to help execute our 2021 Summit (more on that below). Her LTO email and Slack account will remain active, so feel free to reach out any time. Thank you for everything, Sarah! We're so grateful and wish you every success at Exer!
Welcoming New Faces
In September we welcomed Laura Andress to LTO. Laura joins us via SquaredAway as our Member Support Lead, helping to ensure everyone at LTO is well taken care of. She is South Carolina based, so don't fret if you see early morning responses or the word ma'am in your inbox :) She is excited to meet you all!
More To Come
We've got lots of awesome stuff coming 'atcha in the final days of this year: fun events to celebrate the season (check your inbox), our 2020 Compensation Report (almost done!), our 2021 Content Survey (coming your way soon), and more big announcements + initiatives planned to launch at the start of the new year. Get excited: you're in the good place.
Well, that's the news for now. There's more good gravy below, so keep reading. I'm wishing you all a happy and COVID-free holiday season. I've already told Santa all I want for Christmas is a mass-distributed, 90%+ effective vaccine. Fingers crossed.
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LTO Member Spotlights are our ongoing initiative to raise the visibility of glorious people like yourselves (#hairtoss) for all the obvious reasons, but primarily because: we do all of this incredible lifting for our funds and are so rarely recognized, acknowledged, and celebrated by the venture ecosystem at large.
This go-around we’re honoring Michelle for celebrating TEN YEARS at Tenaya Capital. Read Michelle's profile here.
Please celebrate Michelle by SHARING THE LOVE on your social media!
We'll be doing an LTO Twitter - LinkedIn - Insta push on Tuesday (12/1) if you wanna jump on that bandwagon.
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Meet our Newest 2020 Members!
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We've had a bounty of fresh faces join the LTO family. Check 'em out:
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Afton Maya | LinkedIn
Investor Relations/Client Services Associate
Formerly at Foresite Capital
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Rachel Payne | LinkedIn
Venture Operations Manager
Arc Ventures
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Ashley Law | LinkedIn
Founder Experience Operations Lead
Redpoint
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Kirsten Byron | LinkedIn
VP of Operations
Pear VC
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Hannah Shore | LinkedIn
Platform Director
Greycroft
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Cameron Davidson | LinkedIn
Director of Operations
The Production Board
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Megan Kurohara | LinkedIn
Special Projects
Draper Associates
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Kelly O'Rourke | LinkedIn
Operations and Human Resources
Strut Consulting
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Samantha Bohbot | LinkedIn
Platform Manager
Digital Currency Group
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Katie Hemmerling | LinkedIn
VP of Finance
Questa Capital
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Alistair "Ali" Wilson | LinkedIn
Fund Operations Manager
New Fund TBA
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Jordan Slick | LinkedIn
Senior Director
Kupanda Capital
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Stephanie Rich | LinkedIn
Head of Platform
Bread & Butter Ventures
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Lacey Behrens | LinkedIn
Operations
o1 Advisors
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Meet our Current Trial Members!
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Jenny Smelyanets | LinkedIn
Director of Marketing
Sapphire Ventures
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Christina Bogatsky | LinkedIn
Partner & Managing Director
Modern Venture Partners
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Jenna Borowski | LinkedIn
Platform & Community Associate
American Family Insurance Institute for Corporate & Social Impact
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Scott Brown | LinkedIn
VP of Marketing
Sapphire Ventures
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These + ALL your beautiful faces can be found on our:
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New Date Announcement + Pre-/Early Registration
We have officially locked in Summit 2021 for October 5th-6th-7th in Austin, Texas (COVID-willing, of course), which is an *update* from our last communication. This plants us squarely between weekend 1 and weekend 2 of Austin City Limits. For music lovers, this should be a big perk :) However, given the heavy travel to Austin that week, we HIGHLY RECOMMEND you pre-register for your hotel room NOW !!! to ensure you've got a spot to rest your head ~or~ you can fully register for the event (if you're feeling bold + brave // password: LETSSUMMIT). Get at it:
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Virtual Event Recaps
Missed one of our work-focused or fun virtual events and want to dive in? Check out our:
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Upcoming Events
Stay up to date on upcoming events via email announcements and our:
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Tanya’s 1:1 coaching sessions are now available through mid-2021:
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A loving reminder that all of our fantastical LTO Experts are available to help you anytime via our Members-Only Portal > Expert Advisor Network :)
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ICYMI some new faces joined LTO's Board this September to rep you proper:
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Natalie Arora | LinkedIn
Head of Ops @ Susa Ventures
SF Board Representative
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Sofia Garcia | LinkedIn
Head of Fund Ops, Portfolio & Platform @ JLL Spark
SF Board Representative
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Alexa Makreas | LinkedIn
Head of Content & Brand @ Salesforce Ventures
Silicon Valley Board Representative
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You can find all of your board reps and leadership here.
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