RIMS, the risk management society, announced that Laura Langone will lead the Society as president for the 2020 term.
Langone has been a member of RIMS for 22 years and joined its board of directors in 2016. She has held many board positions with the RIMS Silicon Valley Chapter, including serving as president for four years. She also volunteered on several RIMS committees and chaired the Society’s Enterprise Risk Management Committee in 2015.
Langone is head of insurance operations at Airbnb Inc. Prior to Airbnb, she was the head of insurance and risk management at PayPal Inc. and Juniper Networks. Throughout her more than 20-year career in risk management, other prominent positions have included director of risk management and assistant treasurer at Genentech Inc. and West Coast life science leader at Marsh, among others.