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I'm a Strategic Finance Analyst at Coda Payments, working at the intersection of financial performance, storytelling, and regional growth. My role involves building and owning board-level financial models, leading budget reforecasts, and supporting performance narratives across 15+ markets.
I collaborate closely with marketing, product, and data teams to translate complex metrics like TPV, CAC, and retention into actionable insights for senior leadership. I’m particularly interested in how data becomes narrative, especially in high-growth, cross-border tech environments.
Previously, I worked in VC and growth strategy roles, and I enjoy staying close to founders, capital markets, and company-building conversations. 
• Seasoned legal executive and privacy leader currently serving as the Senior Legal Director for EMEA and South Asia, alongside my role as Group Privacy Officer at Coda.
• Experienced in managing teams and complex legal matters across diverse international jurisdictions, particularly in EMEA and South Asia.
• Expertise in regulatory and data privacy compliance, corporate governance, commercial contracting, strategic risk management, litigation, and dispute resolution, aligning legal strategies with business objectives.
•Responsible for global privacy strategy, compliance, and cross-border frameworks across 65 countries, championing privacy by design.
• Passionate about guiding businesses at the intersection of law, technology, commercial strategy, and privacy to achieve sustainable growth. 
Vinnie Lauria is a two-time Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned venture capitalist. He is the Founding Partner of Golden Gate Ventures, a global early-stage VC firm launched in 2011 with US$300M in AUM and 100+ investments. Over the past 14 years, Vinnie has served on more than a dozen startup boards, including unicorns like Carro and Carousell. He was an early investor in Stripe and AngelList, and helped take startups like Lomotif public on the NYSE.
Before founding Golden Gate Ventures, Vinnie built two startups in Silicon Valley: Meetro, a pioneering location-based chat app (shut down with many lessons learned in 2007); and Lefora, a social network platform acquired by a public media company in 2010. He also founded Silicon Valley NewTech, one of the Bay Area’s largest startup demo events at the time.
Vinnie has been a guest lecturer at Stanford, Berkeley, and the National University of Singapore, and is a Kauffman Fellow. Earlier in his career, he spent four years at IBM, helping shape the company’s strategy around social software for the enterprise. A lifelong technologist, Vinnie is deeply passionate about building startup ecosystems worldwide and joined his first startup as a developer while still in high school. 
