Welcome New Board Member, Laurie Cremona Wagner

Please join us in welcoming our newest board member, Laurie Cremona Wagner!

Cremona Wagner serves as the Vice President of Marketing Performance at SAP. In this role, Ms. Cremona Wagner provides worldwide leadership overseeing the goals and targets for all SAP Marketing organizations to drive collaboration and maximize business impact and provides analytics and insights to facilitate data-driven marketing. She has served as Vice President of Marketing Operations and Strategy at Sun Microsystems and BEA Systems (now Oracle), and led the Education Services business at both EMC (now Dell) and BMC Software.

Ms. Cremona Wagner brings experience in both the building industry; including architecture, civil engineering and construction; and the high-tech industry; including software, hardware and services. Ms. Cremona Wagner began her career in the building industry as a high-tech design and construction project manager in Silicon Valley. She helped build a cloud company for architects, engineers and contractors as the Vice President of Services, and became a Six Sigma Master Black Belt with General Electric specializing in voice of the customer, statistics and process optimization. Cremona Wagner also co-founded Mission Job Share, a non-profit aimed at helping organizations retain employees and employees advance their careers through work arrangements that support work-life balance.

As a certified LEED Accredited Professional with the U.S. Green Building Council, Cremona Wagner was appointed by the governor to the Oregon School Facilities Task Force. She currently co-chairs Portland Community College’s Business Advisory Committee and is a member of PCC’s Computer Information Services Advisory Board.

An advocate for wage equity and Title IX, Cremona Wagner worked with Representative Ann Lininger to write and testify for Oregon’s pay equity bill. She now works with the AAUW to educate Oregonians and raise awareness of fair pay for women in our communities.

Cremona Wagner has lived in Oregon for 13 years. She resides in Lake Oswego with her husband and their 4 teenage children, who all attend Lake Oswego public schools as they prepare to enter both the local workforce and higher education system.

Ms. Cremona Wagner holds a bachelor’s degree in Architecture and Urban Design from Stanford University, and a master’s degree in Civil Engineering and Construction Management also from Stanford University. As a fellow at Stanford’s Center for Integrated Facilities Engineering (CIFE), Cremona Wagner published research to increase the efficiency of complex building construction in the Journal of Construction Engineering and Management.

We are thrilled to add Cremona Wagner’s experience and passion for our mission to our board of directors.