Laura is passionate about technology and about helping customers find powerful solutions to pressing problems. She brings 20 years of sales and management experience to Conteneo Inc., including seven years at Uptime Resources where she ran the IT professional services division. Her team managed all aspects of technology for small and mid-sized businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to Uptime Resources, Laura was the business development director at E-Color where she and her team launched an image and color optimization engine to improve the reliability of online images used by large e-commerce sites from companies like Bloomingdales and J Crew. The seeds for her love of technology were planted during the four years she spent with ObjectSpace. As Sales Director for both the East and then the West Coast, she helped large Fortune accounts successfully adopt object-oriented technology and iterative development practices which was very rewarding. Laura holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and has also worked on an MA in Psychology. She lives in the East Bay with her husband and two children and challenges herself a few times a year by participating in a ToughMudder Adventure Race.
Aaron Proietti is an innovation expert with seventeen years of experience innovating in complex organizations. Most recently, he was the Chief Innovation Office for Transamerica, where he and Laura Richardson first met. In 2016, at the age of forty, Aaron stepped away from the corporate grind to decompress and reevaluate his career trajectory. He founded Adaptivity Enterprises, LLC, to "help the world thrive amidst accelerating pace of change" by writing, speaking at conferences, coaching innovation leaders, and helping organizations design and build their innovation competency. Aaron has been a regular writing contributor at InnovationLeader.com and Insurance Thought Leadership. His book, Today's Innovator, How to Create an Environment Where Innovation Thrives, is now available on Amazon.
