Lora Blum, GC of Momentive (fka Survey Monkey)

Today, my guest is Lora Blum, the GC of Momentive who leads the company’s legal, equity, and compliance teams and initiatives. Previously, Lora served as Vice President, legal-corporate at LinkedIn, where she managed corporate securities, governance, M&A, and international subsidiary matters for the legal team.

She led internal teams on the company’s IPO, all of its M&A, and its $26.2 billion sale to Microsoft. Before that, Lora was in private practice for over 10 years, serving as a partner in capital markets at Jones Day and a shareholder at Heller Ehrman. Lora has a J.D. from UCLA and a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.

In this candid conversation, Lora shares her journey from a history major fascinated by a cousin in the Virgin Islands to becoming the General Counsel of SurveyMonkey (now Momentiv), discussing her fast-paced start during the dot-com boom and her transition from private practice to an executive in-house leader.

Hsu Untied interview with Lora Blum