Morse, Laura Barker

Managing Director, Entrepreneurship Ventures, Inc., Boston, Massachussets, US
  • Managing Director, Entrepreneurship Ventures Boston, MA, USA
  • Co-instructor with Professor Diana Burton (2009) at MIT Sloan School of Management: “Designing & Leading the Entrepreneurial Organization”
  • Visiting Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management
  • Former Human Capital Partner, Atlas Venture, London, Paris, Munich, Boston
  • Former Senior Executive with S.W.I.F.T. sc, Belgium
  • Prior twenty years as a Partner with Leading Global Executive Search Consultancies, Russel Reynolds Associates and Heidrick & Struggles in Chigaco, Boston and Brussels
  • B.A. and graduate work, University of Iowa, Elected to Mortar Board

Laura Barker Morse has deep experience in strategic human capital issues including recruitment, organizational development, and total reward and compensation systems.

Track Record

Laura Barker Morse started Entrepreneurship Ventures, a consulting and coaching practice, in 2008, in response from start ups in Scotland, Spain, Quebec, and the Boston area. From 1998 till 2008, Laura was Human Capital Partner at Atlas Venture, the largest transatlantic early stage technology venture capital firm. She worked closely with Atlas portfolio companies on strategic human capital issues including recruitment, development, and reward systems. She acted as her firm's senior human resource professional and as liason with consultants and preferred providers of recruitment, compensation and human resources.

Prior to joining Atlas Venture, Laura worked in Brussels for S.W.I.F.T. sc, the global financial telecommunications consortium, where she reported to the CEO during strategic reorganization and led management planning, worldwide recruiting and expatriate services. Laura recruited over 250 European and Asian executives.

Before that, Laura spent twenty years in technology executive search with Russel Reynolds and Heidrick & Struggles. She joined Russell Reynolds in 1977 in Chigaco and helped open their Boston office in 1981. As Managing director and global Practice Leader of Venture Capital practice, she worked worldwide with venture firms and their portfolio companies. In 1991, she joined Heidrick & Struggles as a Partner in their Technology pracite, relocating to their Brussels office in 1992.

Laura is a graduate of the University of Iowa, where she was elected to Mortar Board. She is a frequent speaker on recruiting, team building and career planning at workshop around Europe, and also leading business schools including Solvay (Belgium), Harvard Business School, and MIT/Sloan. Laura served for ten years as Trustee of The Computer Museum, and is currently bot a Trustee and Chair of the Overseers Nominating Committee of the Museum of Science (Boston). Shei is a member of Hestia, a charitable giving circle. She currently serves on the board of Advisors of Aura Biosciences, a Madrid-based oncology group.