Valerie is a results-oriented entrepreneur, investor and information technology business executive with a proven track record in building profitable businesses for more than 20 years. She is an active angel investor focused on operational efficiencies, strategic planning, governance and government relations. When serving as a managing director, Valerie sees trends and tackles business challenges facing rapidly growing companies. She is good at implementing targeted growth strategies paying close attention to financial and operating accountability to create maximum value for the company and its stakeholders. As an elected official, Valerie believes that party affiliation should never be a factor in decision making And that we need lower taxes, less government and more freedom. But that requires citizens to understand that more government is never the answer to bad government.Valerie serves on the House Committees on Liquor, Professional Licensure, Commerce and Government Oversight. She is the co Chair of the Cancer Caucus and of the Life Science Caucus and is the founder of the Cybersecurity Caucus.Valerie is a regular speaker on issues regarding company valuation, capitalization, entrepreneurship, venture capital, angel investing, patents, technology and more. She has been featured in numerous publications and media outlets including Forbes, Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Technically Philly, Private2IPO, Executive Leaders Radio, DC Inno, Patent Truth, TechBisnow and more. In her capacity of an entrepreneur and Angel investor she frequently provides testimony to Congress and has been involved with the Inventor's Project, Save the Inventor, Innovation Alliance, Edison Nation and others on U.S. Patent reform.As a legislator, she pushes for the often challenging goal of more transparency and accountability in government.
Listed skills include Start Ups, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Private Equity, and 40 others.