Laura Roden
Contributing Writer
4years covering personal finance
12+ articles on LendingTree
Held chief financial officer position at several companies
Has taught university courses in finance and accounting for more than twenty years
Specialties
Financial accounting and reporting
Banking and borrowing
Small business and startups
Venture capital and private equity
Investment management and analysis
Education
Master of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard College
Laura Roden writes and edits articles on business and personal finance, accounting, banking, entrepreneurship, money raising and investing for Lending Tree and affiliated sites. She has been submitting articles since 2022.
Laura’s authorship expertise is directly related to her long career in financial services. After earning her MBA at Harvard, she worked as a senior consultant for the accounting firm Deloitte. From there, she advanced to serve as chief financial officer of a series of established and startup companies
After many years as a CFO, Laura became director of a private investment group. She then earned her Series 7, 65 and 79 licenses and brokered private investments to high-net-worth individuals and institutions. Additionally, she served on the board of directors of a Nasdaq-listed commercial bank.
Throughout the years, Laura has also taught courses in finance, accounting, banking and entrepreneurship at San Jose State University, where she is now a professor emeritus.
Laura’s thoughts on financial education
It’s exciting to have the opportunity to share fact-based, useful knowledge about business and personal finance. Most people haven’t had formal education in these areas, and they struggle to make good decisions based on partial information or hearsay comments. LendingTree provides an invaluable, free resource of data authored and vetted by credentialed experts, to which I'm proud to contribute."
