Laura Demmons

Chairman & CEO at Sylvan Source, Inc.

Laura Demmons is a veteran business executive with a successful track record of growing teams and businesses with over 20 years in executive management.

Early in her career, Ms. Demmons spent 12 years with Hewlett-Packard in a variety of business management positions in technology areas ranging from high-speed cable modems and interactive television infrastructures to PCs, servers, and storage. In key management roles, she contributed to the transformation of divisions resulting in substantial growth and profitability for Hewlett-Packard. In one case she was instrumental in increasing the revenue run-rate by $1.6 billion within a single two-year period (5x revenue growth) and started with an unprofitable operation that generated tens of millions of dollars in net profit every quarter within the same two-year period.

Ms. Demmons received a BA from the University of Oregon and took Hewlett-Packard sponsored executive business courses with Stanford and Wharton. She and Sylvan Source have been the recipient of two Frost & Sullivan Innovative Product of the Year Awards, the Red Herring Global 100 Award, a Department of Commerce Exporter of the Year Award and a Global Water Intelligence Technology Idol Award. Ms. Demmons and Sylvan Source were selected as one of the winners in the Fall 2020 Arizona Innovation Challenge and are participating in the Arizona Commerce Authority’s 2021 Venture Ready Accelerator. She and Sylvan Source were also selected as one of three winners in the Unicorn World Finals for Summer 2021.

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