Executive Profile

Laura Barber-Miller

Vice President of Communications

Laura Barber-Miller is responsible for developing and promoting the Grass Valley Group's corporate identity and brand globally in both the company's traditional and emerging markets.

Barber-Miller is responsible for driving the company's global strategic communications programs, including the Web, advertising, collateral, public relations, and industry shows and events. She has more than 15 years experience in high-technology communications with a focus on software and digital media industries.

Barber-Miller was director of communications for the Tektronix Video and Networking Division prior to the acquisition by the Grass Valley Group. She created and drove strategic communications programs that helped to resurrect the company's reputation among the worldwide broadcast media, and repositioned the company from a traditional hardware supplier for broadcast to a digital video/media software and hardware solutions provider for broadcast and for adjacent growth markets leveraging high-quality digital video.

Prior to Tektronix, Barber-Miller spent 10 years in various communications positions within the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) industry with Mentor Graphics Corporation and with KVO Advertising and Public Relations. Barber-Miller has a BA in Technical Journalism from Oregon State University.