Leah Edwards

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Biography

Ms. Leah Edwards serves as Board Member at Namecoach. Ms. Edwards is an Angel Investor. She served as Partner at Pegasus Tech Ventures. She started her career in management consulting and then launched new products for Intuit, Oracle, and Taligent, a joint venture of Apple and IBM. She then joined the founding team of an enterprise SaaS company called Post Communications, which was acquired by Netcentives within two years for $380 million. After advising and serving in interim leadership roles for other startups that were acquired by major companies including the US Green Business Council and SolarCity, she co-founded another marketing technology company, Overstat, which was purchased by Tealeaf Technology (now IBM). Her deep involvement in Higher Education began in 2012 when she became the Director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is an active angel investor and serves on the Board of NameCoach, which serves both the Higher Education and Enterprise markets. In addition to being a Lecturer for UC Berkeley's Engineering Department, she regularly conducts workshops for visiting corporate innovation teams and foreign investors, and she serves as a mentor in several Silicon Valley accelerator programs. She holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MBA and Certificate of Public Management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.