LeAnn Auer
Executive Director
Michigan Venture Capital Association
 
Speaker
Extreme Power Connect
LeAnn Auer is the Executive Director of the Michigan Venture Capital Association (MVCA), a statewide trade organization representing the venture capital industry.  In this leadership role she is responsible for developing the MVCA into a highly focused and proactive organization, while helping to create a more vibrant venture capital community in Michigan.  Prior to this role, she spent 11 years working for Barclays Global Investors (BGI), a large institutional money manager, in San Francisco.  While an employee at BGI, she spent nine years as a securities lending equity and fixed income trader before focusing on product development and strategy for the global securities finance business.  In 2006, she and her family relocated back to the Midwest and reside in Ann Arbor. LeAnn received B.A. degrees in Business and Health Finance from Indiana University in 1993, and is currently enrolled in the University of Michigan’s Executive MBA class of 2011.