Laura A. Black

Managing Director of Needham & Company, LLC
Director since 2025

Laura A. Black has served as a Managing Director of Needham & Company, LLC, a full-service investment banking firm since 1999. At Needham, she has raised public and private equity capital for numerous technology companies and served as strategic financial advisor on multiple mergers and acquisitions transactions. From July 1995 to February 1999, she served as a Managing Director of Corporate Finance at Black & Company, a regional investment bank subsequently acquired by Wells Fargo Van Kasper. From July 1993 to June 1995, Ms. Black served as a Director for TRW Avionics & Surveillance Group where she evaluated acquisition candidates, managed direct investments and raised venture capital to back spin-off companies. From August 1983 to August 1992, she worked at TRW as an electrical engineer designing hardware for spread spectrum communication systems. Ms. Black currently serves as a board member of each of Viavi Solutions, Inc., a global provider of network test, monitoring and assurance solutions, since 2018, and Ichor Holdings, Ltd., a provider of critical fluid delivery subsystems and components for the semiconductor industry, since February 2019. Ms. Black earned a Master of Science degree in management from Stanford University Graduate School of Business. She holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree from Santa Clara University and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Davis.

Ms. Black is a member of our Audit Committee and our Nominating and Governance Committee. ​​