Technology >> CEO Interviews >> December 25, 2000
LAURA GROPPE is the CEO of Girl Games, Inc. She spent seven years as a
co-Producer and Assistant Director in the entertainment business. Her
credits include an Academy Award in 1992 for Best Short Film, Session
Man, and an additional nomination for the dramatic short, Birch Street
Gym. Ms.Groppe also co-produced Suture, a feature film that screened at
the 1994 Cannes Film Festival and won 'Best Cinematography' at Robert
Redford's Sundance Film Festival in 1994. She also received four MTV
music video awards in 1994 as co-producer on R.E.M.'s, 'Everybody
Hurts.' In 1994, Ms. Groppe left Hollywood to return to her home state
of Texas to launch Girl Games, Inc. She regularly addresses the business
community, women's universities, girls' organizations, and industry
seminars, and was the keynote speaker at Sweet Briar College's 'Women
and Work,' and Bay Path College's 'Young Women's Leadership Conference.'
The conferences, designed as catalysts to unite young women by providing
information and guidance on careers and work-related issues, are
examples of Ms. Groppe's determination to encourage young women in the
field of technology. She is devoted to proving there is a path to
success in typically male dominated arenas by the sharing lessons of
starting her own business in a world where nothing like it had existed
previously. Ms. Groppe is a Board Member for the Center for Visual
Communications and Planet 10, a NASA-supported program dedicated to
promoting girls in science. In addition, she volunteers for the AAUW and
is a graduate of Leadership America. She is a dedicated philanthropist,
supporting organizations that serve the interests of women, such as the
Susan Komen Foundation in the fight against breast cancer, and
GirlStart, a non-profit organization committed to mentoring and training
girls in technology. Profile
Ms. Groppe: I started girl games five years ago to be the voice of the
adolescent girl. Five years ago, the emerging technology of the
