Laura Yecies, Vice President at Check Point and General Manager of ZoneAlarm's consumer and small business division, is an Internet industry veteran with nearly two decades of experience leading top consumer brands such as Yahoo and Netscape.

Yecies is responsible for all facets of Check Point's ZoneAlarm consumer and small business division, including strategic planning, business development, marketing, e-commerce, and product development. Since joining the company in June 2005, Yecies has led new expansion initiatives to drive ZoneAlarm's technology leadership, sales, and brand awareness.

At Yahoo, Yecies generated significant growth as General Manager of the Yahoo Mail division, where she also successfully integrated new anti-spam technologies to relieve the pain of unwanted e-mail for millions of users worldwide. As a key contributor in the early days at Netscape, she led the worldwide product management group. After the America Online acquisition, Yecies served as Vice President of the Netscape browser division at AOL.

Yecies was also charged with developing the market entry strategy for Informix Software Corp. in Latin America, and served as Director of Marketing Programs for the Asia Pacific Latin America region at Gupta Corporation. She has consulted extensively at Oracle, Visigenic, Hitachi, Phoenix as well as several technology-based start-ups, and worked in the public sector at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, a subsidiary of A.I.D.

Yecies received an M.B.A. from Harvard and M.S.F.S. from Georgetown School of Foreign Service where she graduated with honors in International Business Diplomacy. She received her A.B. Magna Cum Laude in Government from Dartmouth and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She has been on staff as a lecturer for International Marketing at Santa Clara University, and serves on the Board of several community non-profit organizations. She has lived in Brazil, Venezuela, England and France and is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, and French.