Lauren is a Principal and Managing Director at Robertson Stephens. She has over 32 years of experience in personal financial planning, divorce planning, finance and real estate. Prior to joining Robertson Stephens, she was a wealth manager and financial planner at All Season Financial Advisors for 17 years.
Early in her career, Lauren spent 12 years in the financial industry in New York. She was an investment banker with Morgan Stanley & Co., a financial analyst with J.W. O’Connor & Co., and Vice President of Finance for Silverstein Properties, a Forbes 400 commercial real estate developer in New York City, where she was responsible for arranging over $1 billion in financing.
Lauren is also a Certified Financial Planner® She earned her undergraduate degree from the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and her MBA from Harvard Business School. She has served on the Board of Directors for the College of Financial Planning since 2022, and will assume the role of President in 2026.. She was a member of the Board of Directors for the American Alpine Club for 6 years until 2021.
Lauren and her wife Mimi are the parents of 1 very spoiled Havanese puppy, Frankie, and one human child, Kate Alta, who is a Cardiology Fellow at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Lauren’s passions outside of personal financial planning include backcountry skiing, mountain biking and watching classic British murder mysteries on BBC.