Laurie Olivier
Laurie is a partner of Veritas Venture Partners, Israel's most experienced venture capital firm and manages its Atlanta office. He is a member of technology-related industry forums – serving as vice chairman of the American Israel Chamber of Commerce and sitting on the board of the Atlanta Venture Forum. In South Africa, he currently serves as a technology commercialization advisor to the major government-controlled research organization and the University of Pretoria.
He has been involved in venture capital since 1990. As SVP Private Equity at Anglo American (AA), a leading global mining concern, he represented AA's interests in a number of venture funds, including the AAV fund managed by Veritas. He served on the boards of various AAV portfolio companies. He was also a board member of MCPEPA (an East Asian private equity fund) and MCA (a South African VC fund - Chairman of the Investment Committee).
At Anglo American, he pioneered the establishment of new technology-driven businesses, and served on the boards of a variety of publicly traded and privately held businesses, including Anglo American Industrial Corporation Ltd and some of its joint venture companies with major East Asian corporations, including Mitsubishi, Temasek, and the Daewoo Group.
Laurie was born and raised in South Africa. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics) degree from the University of Pretoria, and a Bachelor of Commerce (Honors) degree with a Diploma in Datametrics from the University of South Africa.
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