Laura Martin

Ms. Laura Martin, CFA, is a Senior Analyst at Needham & Co. LLC.
She joined Needham & Company in 2009, where she publishes research on the largest Internet, entertainment and cable companies.
She began her career at Drexel Burnham Lambert in media investment banking.
After the Drexel bankruptcy, she moved to Capital Research & Management as a media analyst 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 publishing research on the largest U.S.
entertainment and cable companies.
In 2002, she 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 2004, she also joined Capital Knowledge, LLC (www.CapKnowledge.com) to provide expert witness testimony and valuation consulting.
She received her BA from Stanford and her MBA from Harvard Business School.