Laura Malin Eisenmann, Chief Knowledge Officer, Health Advances LLC
Laura has extensive experience in global professional services firms delivering knowledge management solutions, developing digital knowledge products and databases, and organizing information for findability and reuse, including content architecture, taxonomy development, metadata management, search, and usability.
She currently leads the Knowledge Management function at Health Advances LLC, a strategy consulting firm advising healthcare and life science organizations on global business strategy and technology commercialization.  She guides and builds knowledge management as a strategic asset of the firm, including developing and advancing leading edge processes and tools to identify, capture, organize, analyze, and disseminate both internal and external information for use by consulting teams.
Laura is also an Associate at Columbia University in New York, co-facilitating a class on Findability and Innovation in the Master’s Program in Information and Knowledge Strategy.
Prior to joining Health Advances, Laura spent 15 years at the Ernst & Young Center for Business Knowledge, where she was responsible for architecture management for global enterprise knowledge applications, navigation, and findability.  She directed the development of platforms and products that implemented the knowledge architecture, including navigation, search, user experience, taxonomy and classification, cataloging, and content architecture.  Earlier, Laura spent eight years at Bain & Company as manager of the Experience Center, Bain’s corporate proprietary information center.
Laura holds an MS from the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science and an SB in Music and Math from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.